A crack team of nanoengineers and biologists have created a non-volatile memory device out of salmon DNA and silver nanoparticles. The memory is write-once-read-many (WORM), just like an optical disc.
It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No, this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio in the Marvel universe. This is all about our precious digital data. We need to store it somewhere ...
(Nanowerk Spotlight) In a world driven by data, the relentless growth of digital information is pushing existing storage technologies to their limits. Every day, vast amounts of data are generated, ...
SAN MATEO, Calif. — A National Committee on Information Technology Standards (NCITS) working group is pursuing a new protocol standard for the IEEE 1394 bus in a bid to enable 1394-based “hybrid” ...
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A general trend in the advancement of technology is the slimming down of devices. Phones have become pocketable, computers now actually fit on ...
Earlier this year the IEEE Roadmap and Systems (IRDS) released a technical roadmap report on Mass Data Storage. I was the co-chair on this activity along with Roger Hoyt which included experts on ...
A schematic of a next-generation ultra-thin camera that utilizes metasurfaces, a nano-optical device, to secure light paths: By aligning metasurfaces horizontally on a glass substrate, light reflects ...
There’s an old saying: When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Sometimes referred to as “the law of the instrument,” that hammer-and-nail idea is a common pitfall in ...