Billions and Billions of Songs on Your MP3 Player
The Herald is reporting that scientists have discovered a new way to fit three billion songs on an iPod. Members of the chemistry department at Glasgow University developed a “molecule-sized” mechanism that increases the storage capacity of the player by up to 150,000 times. This breakthrough should bring a new phase of technological advancements on digital music players, as limitations on the currently existing devices are shattered.
The switch, which is made up of two clusters of molecules positioned just 32 millionths of a millimetre apart, allows scientists to easily manipulate an electrical field. Once these switches are placed on a surface made of gold or carbon, they can fit up to one billion transistors on to a single chip, more than five times the current limit. This could allow up to 500,000 gigabytes of storage to be held on a microchip no bigger than a two-pence coin. The present limit for the same space is 3.3 gigabytes.
Wow, that’s both awesome and scary at the same time. Don’t let the military find out.
Jay, what the hell is the military going to do with it? Haha. As far as this goes, watch we’ll see later down the road that these cells will either:
a.) give us cancer
b.) open up a gateway to hell
or
c.) both
Don’t tell Stephen King about this! Haha.
Michael, the military can use it to manipulate electric fields, just like the story said. I’m sure there are ways to bend sound and use it again the enemy…whatever.
Matt, great story. This is definitely interesting, yet mind-boggling at the same time.
you can’t fight brown wave technology forever :S
Definitely. I’m curious to see how long it will take tech companies to implement this mechanism. I’d imagine this would certainly cut down on the weight of laptops and other items.
Oh yeah - thanks Jay!