"Organic Memory"

[jedk]

I was talking to someone a little while ago who works for Wacom, and he was telling me how the "next big thing" in consumer electronics such as the iPod is a thing dubbed "organic memory". Basically this means that through using organic strands and genetics, memory and capacity in portable devices like the iPod will simply go through the roof. Think being able to store a terabyte in a grain of sand. This is all quite a long way off though, but the industry will get to this stage within the next 5-6 years and the technology will become readily available in the next 10-12 years (assuming all goes to current projections from the people who are working on developing "organic memory" technology).

What do you guys think? As I said, this info was told to me from someone else, but I think it's very interesting. When this "organic memory" technology becomes available, it will make everything on the market today completely obsolete... :D

[swy32x]

Phwoar ... mind boggling!

[hyperxi]

The price of such technologies will also be mind boggling...

[Enigma]

well if you think about it, 10 years ago if you told someone you could get a 250gb hard drive for under $200 they wouldn't even listen to you, I don't doubt these capacities, and prices may probably be similar to todays high capacity HD's.

[bhaalspawn]

Interesting, what exactly do you mean by organic memory though, using the bases in DNA as some kind of storage medium? If you've got a link to an article about it that would be great, sounds quite interesting.

[jerrodh]

Here's an article on the technology:

http://www.heise.de/ct/english/98/03/018/

[Kirk]

That looks very similar to an LCD array, and they've had their share of problems scaling those up. If this tech pans out, it'll be at least several years if not a decade or more before it makes it to mainstream.

[-James]

Sounds cool

[stuckinthe80s13]

Originally posted by james_shadow07
Sounds cool
Ha ha...dude, i dont know if you know this but you just pulled a zoolander...lol, yeah besides that.... Organic memory reminds me of that movie eXiStEnZ....kinda cool...not as good as the other matrix clones though.