Gone are the days of CDs and DVDs. An Indian College Student has Developed a paper based storage system that can store 90-450 GB on a single disk.
Sainul Abideen, 24, of the Muslim Educational Society Engineering College says that the secret behind his ‘Rainbow Versatile Disk’ (RVD) is that instead of using zeros and ones for computing he used common geometric shapes such as circles, squares, triangles, which are combined with different colors to preserve the data in the images.
The format can then be read by a scanner. In the demo given by this young man he demonstrated 432 pages of foolscap and a 45-inch video clip read from a 4-sq inch piece of ordinary paper.
The advantages of this technology will be numerous as it will provide a cheap means to store large amounts of data and the storage medium will be eco-friendly.
The designer of this technology is currently working on a RVD scanner that is compact enough to fit inside a laptop. He is also developing a SIM-card-sized Rainbow Data card for mobile phones capable of carrying 5GB data.
Via: engadget
