Oh the huge manatee:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/2127213/NCSUs-Fingernail-Size-Chip-Can-Hold-1TB?from=rss

Quote :

""Engineers from North Carolina State University have created a new fingernail-size chip that can hold 1 trillion bytes (a terabyte) of data. They said their nanostructured Ni-MgO system can store up to 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, 'far exceeding the storage capacities of today's computer memory systems.' Using the process of selective doping, in which an impurity is added to a material whose properties consequently change, the engineers worked at nanoscale and added metal nickel to magnesium oxide, a ceramic. The resulting material contained clusters of nickel atoms no bigger than 10 square nanometers — a pinhead has a diameter of 1 million nanometers. The discovery represents a 90% size reduction compared with today's techniques, and an advancement that could boost computer storage capacity. 'Instead of making a chip that stores 20 gigabytes, you have one that can handle one terabyte, or 50 times more data,' said the team's leader, Jagdish 'Jay' Narayan, director of the National Science Foundation Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures at the university.""

10/23/2009 8:55:00 AM

That's pretty epic.

10/23/2009 9:00:41 AM

badass. The next generation ipod nano may actually be invisible to the naked eye.

10/23/2009 9:04:04 AM

i can't wait to buy it at bestbuy in 15 years!!!

10/23/2009 9:04:54 AM

the earphones wont be connected to anything ... as all your music can just be stored in the casing of the earphone itself.

That IS badass

10/23/2009 9:18:25 AM

The chip is write only though.

10/23/2009 9:35:01 AM

uhh... in that case, i've got a 400 exobyte drive over here in this dinged up usb case i'd like to sell ncsu

10/23/2009 9:48:08 AM

ibtmary easely

10/23/2009 10:32:11 AM

cool

10/23/2009 11:01:55 AM

its still a great feat

but apparently its write-only so far

10/23/2009 11:46:14 AM

It's just a material so far. It theoretically could be used in a computer chip at some point.

http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/degraffnarayan09/

Quote :

"North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far exceeding the storage capacities of today’s computer memory systems."

Hooray for accurate science reporting.

10/23/2009 12:47:24 PM

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"the earphones wont be connected to anything ... as all your music can just be stored in the casing of the earphone itself. That IS badass "

This could already be done if you didn’t want more than 8GB or so of data to store. That’s STILl more than the original iPod though...

10/23/2009 7:31:22 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/25/nc-state-gurus-develop-new-material-to-boost-data-storage-conse/

10/26/2009 7:50:01 AM

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"Too bad the athletic director doesn't posses the same type of initiative. "

hahaha

10/26/2009 9:34:02 AM

Can't tell me it's not true, right?

Gotta take every chance I can to jab.

[Edited on October 26, 2009 at 11:04 AM. Reason : c]

10/26/2009 11:04:28 AM