Media Storage Format of the Future???

Written by Aaron on December 6, 2006 | No Comments

Every few years or so there’s a new format that is supposed to revolutionize the way we store and transfer our data. In my opinion, storage has progressed in a manner that practically defines Evolution, not Revolution. Wether this is because of consumer quirkiness, Govenrment conspiracy, or Big Biddness reluctance to swerve from the status quo is an interesting question…for another time.

 A student at Muslim Educational Society Engineering College in Kuttipuram, has developed a storage format that has the potential to change the way the world stores data. Time will be the judge of whether or not it has the legs to go the distance, but I love the concept.

So, the short and sweet of it is that using “Rainbow Technology” one can essentially “Print” data onto paper, then it can be “Read” from a scanner. This would mean cheap and disposeable data storage. The article describes “Rainbow Cards” which would be SIM card size and store 5 gigs of data, predicting their cost to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 cents US. Sure that’s the manufacturer cost…they’ll probably mark it up at least 50% for consumers.

This concept is the kind of thing that causes the fabled “Nerdrection.” Buying a game or program that is stored on a piece of paper the same size as the reciept, having your resume stored as data on the back of your buisness card, saving a season of your favorite TV show to a couple of sheets of paper…make those Pee-chee folders useful again!

 And anything “Star Wars” related could come printed on Toilet Paper! Hey, George wipes his ass with it. Why can’t we?

I would have linked Star Wars to one of Lucas’ crimes against his fans but I can never decide which he should be shamed by more, the unfinished consistently buggy games, his violation of the original trilogy, or the slightly decreasing sins that he called the prequels.

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Ciao, Bella

Written by Ben on December 4, 2006 | 1 Comment

My sister is off on vacation– an outdoor-adventure trip somewhere in Central America. I must say that I am jealous of that trip because I want to do one, myself, one day. But while she’s away, I am charged with doggy-sitting services for a super hyper-active cute friendly puppy beagle. Our BadPopcorn mascot, Bella:

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