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KoolDrew
05-29-2005, 07:46 AM
A paper disc that can hold up to five times more data than current DVDs has been developed by Sony and another Japanese company.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3639585.stm

Pretty interesting.
[XC] leviathan18
05-29-2005, 08:02 AM
sony has some kind of problem???? they are fighting to introduce us blu ray and they do this???? estrange
Chris27
05-29-2005, 10:50 AM
what if they get wet?
bxa121
05-29-2005, 03:39 PM
do you erase em with a rubber??

EDIT: i mean with an erasure, not a rubber...
winston64
05-29-2005, 07:53 PM
do you erase em with a rubber??

EDIT: i mean with an erasure, not a rubber...

hahahahaha doubt it

and its eraser :p
Xassius
05-29-2005, 10:17 PM
nice :D
Now burning cd's will be even cheaper (at least on the disc side of things), but dunno about the special printer :(
TekXoID
05-29-2005, 10:24 PM
nice :D
Now burning cd's will be even cheaper (at least on the disc side of things), but dunno about the special printer :(
Let's just hope they don't present a fire hazard when "Burning"...
$a1Ty
05-29-2005, 11:08 PM
can you imagine that tho, flexible discs that you burn/print with an ink jet printer lol
teqguy
05-30-2005, 12:22 AM
The only problem I see with this is read speed.

It doesn't look like they're using a magnetic ink, so it probably works on the same principles as a barcode scanner, except on a micron level. If you've ever had to work with barcode scanners, you'd know they're a pain in the ass. Even when you have the scanner directly perpendicular with the barcode and are within a close distance, it still seems to fail.

The good thing about this, though, is that it should raise the amount of paper that's recycled to about 88%, from the current 72%.