Memory crystals

[ai_vin]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...070913.php

http://www.dvice.com/2013-7-9/welcome-fi...d-crystals

http://inhabitat.com/revolutionary-super...y-forever/

[radtech497]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2...070913.php

http://www.dvice.com/2013-7-9/welcome-fi...d-crystals

http://inhabitat.com/revolutionary-super...y-forever/

While this is certainly interesting in its own right, I see that this technology has a shelf life of *only* a million years or so. For really long-term archival data storage, I would prefer Hitachi's system, announced last September ( http://www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/120924.html ) that can store data for hundreds of millions of years and, as an added bonus, is independent of any particular operating system (it can be read with a suitable microscope).

YMMV,

Radtech497