no more discs!! paper only, must read.

[Kingroudy]

no more discs after today, check this new technology invented by an indian.
here is an article that says all what is available about this topic. and also here is a nahar article.
this is ranbow technology, and the concept is that we are able to store 450 gb on a paper. this is truly amazing.
of course this is not gonna start soon, not in the near futur, because even this project is not final yet. but i hope that it will be adapted by giant companies cuz this will be very ideal and evironment friendly if it works.
now read and tell me what you think, dont be lazy, read, the articles are short, and the nahar one is in arabic

[Tawa]

!!! This is amazing after that, we don't have to use Hard Disks!!! but it's kinda hard to make I think...

[s1m0n]

roudy man i love u (L) u just gave me an idea for my 2nd NT [new technologie] project :P, if u know more sources [links, newspapers ... ] plz send them.
tanks salaf

[Kingroudy]

Originally Posted by s1m0n

roudy man i love u (L) u just gave me an idea for my 2nd NT [new technologie] project :P, if u know more sources [links, newspapers ... ] plz send them.
tanks salaf

man this is real, just real, new laptops will have small scanners instead of a dvd drives, but this is for the futur, and i promise you that if i find something, i'll tell you.

[god]

this is awesome XD next-gen pcs here we come!!

[Tawa]

It may be time to bid goodbye to CDs, DVDs and Zip drives. According to a report from the Arab News, a university technology student at the Muslim educational society Engineering College in Kerala, Sainul Abideen has invented a method of storing massive amounts of digital data on just a plain old piece of paper. Abideen claims that the paper has the storage capacity which is many times more than the capacity of the best Blu-ray or HD-DVD discs. Abideen’s invention, which goes by the name of Rainbow technology can enable him to store up to a massive 450GB on just a piece of paper. However, after a real life demonstration of the same, it was concluded that the technology still needs more development.
Abideen claims that his Rainbow system is much better than binary storage, because it uses geometric shapes such as squares and hexagons to represent data patterns, instead of the usual binary method that uses ones and zeros to represent data.
Besides, color is also used in the Rainbow system, to represent other data elements. In order to read the Rainbow prints, all that is required is a scanner and specialized software.
The reporter of Arab News claims to have seen 450 pages of fully printed foolscap being stored on a 4-square inch piece of Rainbow paper. The reporter also claimed that he was shown a 45-second video clip that was stored using the Rainbow system on a plain piece of paper.
Interestingly, the 45-second video didn’t say a lot, and if the Rainbow system can store up to 450 GB, then soon we would be watching full-length high-definition videos from a piece of paper!
One of the major advantages of the Rainbow system is the fact that it should cost a lot less to produce than the typical polycarbonate DVDs, CDs and now Blu-rays. Abideen claims that huge data banks can be constructed out of Rainbow-based storage medium. The main attraction seems to be the cheap paper.
As of right now, Abideen’s system is still under research at the Muslim Educational Society Engineering College and although no major companies have expressed interest, Abideen is confident of the system’s future. According to the report, Aibdeen is hard at work at developing a Rainbow scanner that would be small enough for integration into notebook computers. If developed, a Rainbow printer will likely be next up. Currently, of the several options available for data storage, DVDs are the best mode, but are yet expensive. Sianul has said that a CD or DVD consumes 16gms of polycarbonate, which is a petroleum by-product. While a CD costs Rs. 15, his paper or plastic-made RVD will cost just about Rs. 1.50 and will even have 131 times more storage capacity.
Sainul is also working on project Xpressa, a software package for regional languages. This will enable the Internet browser to access the newspapers available on Internet through mobile phone in audible form.

[Kingroudy]

bas ma ba3ref lesh ballashou y5awz2ou fi la hal zalameh, ma32oul la annou hendeh?? check this out
http://www.techworld.com/storage/new...fm?newsid=7432
they clame that his theory is wrong based on what is available for now. but i think they were too biased, and they were not objective, all what they wanted was to argue him.
i think this indian has something hidden, of course storing this much on a paper has a secret that he is refusing to tell.

[s1m0n]

They said 256GB and it actually is 450GB,
they have a porint thow but we could never know,
+ wont the paper get old wont the colors get weak ...
stuff we should think about,
plz who can i find more info bout that technology do send me it id be gradefull thanks.

[Kingroudy]

man i found the email of that person who invented it,
mysainul@yahoo.com
w ma 7ada ya3moul edit lal post!
anyway simon if he replies your email just post what he wrote for you!!! i'm not kidding.

[s1m0n]

ive been studyin that project with a couple of friends its almost impossible:
The math does not add up
Look at the math: 450GB on one sheet of paper
.... standard page is 8.5"X11". Let's ignore the
margins, that gives us 93.5 square inches. To have
450GB, we would need 5 million dots per inch !!!!
No scanner today can read that resolution and
no printer today can write that resolution

Here is another way to look at it:
He records on paper, HDD's record on magnetic media ...
it is possible to make a much much smaller magnetic
dipole on a magnetic substrate than it is possible to
make a mark on paper.
and HDDs do not ultimately write just ones and
zeroes to disk either.
Even so, basic physics ... it will always be
possible to make smaller magnetic dipoles than dots of
ink.