Literally Unlimited Storage for You from Glasgow in i-pod shuffle

A storage density of 500,000 gigabytes per inch! - Yes that is what future technolgy may bring us, says Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow. That means a device as small as a USB drive can store upto 100 million songs. Dare to run out of unheard songs after that?

While explaining the technology behind such a massive and revolutionary achievement, he said,

What we have done is find a way to potentially increase the data storage capabilities in a radical way. We have been able to assemble a functional nanocluster that incorporates two electron donating groups, and position them precisely 0.32 nm apart so that they can form a totally new type of molecular switching device.

Molecule sized switches would lead to increasing data storage to say 4 Petabits per square inch… The fact these switches work on carbon means that they could be embedded in plastic chips so silicon is not needed and the system becomes much more flexible both physically and technologically.”

While you may not be interested in this technology but the outcome itself, so are we. Wishing the Scots a very good luck. I have some spare hard disks. Can they be enough for the entire Google server? I am not presuming, Lol. Ciao. Oh by the way, is TDK listening?