Back to the articleGreat. #
Posted Tuesday 20th January 2009 12:06 GMT
It's fantastic to see that there's corporate investment in this sort of basic research. They'll need to put some time into the firmware too though.
Will magnetic switching by light keep storage vendors spinning?
pew pew, #
Posted Tuesday 20th January 2009 12:06 GMT
May I be the first to welcome our picosecond wielding lazer shooting overlords of immense memory?
Yeah #
Posted Tuesday 20th January 2009 12:50 GMT
Pizzo electric. Yeah. It's like a pizza, but when you flex it it generates an electric current.
Maybe after the recent news about their CEO etc. #
Posted Tuesday 20th January 2009 15:10 GMT
it won't be Seagate doing it.
GMR #
Posted Tuesday 20th January 2009 20:17 GMT
I was very disappointed that GMR did not involve Giants with Magnets.
Similarly, disappointed by the Pizzo-Electric effect.
Atomic Force Microscopes anyone? And who are Atomic Force? I suspect that they are DC rather than Marvel and include a particularly wanky superhero along the lines of Van der Waals force Boy.
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