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http://www.realtechnews.com [Real Tech News - Independent Tech] This is a new one. The very cool Holographic card costs $1 for 30 GIGABYTES of storage, but of course there’s a catch. The card reader is $1,800.

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Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women[Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women] Holographic Versatile Card: While we wait to see what happens in the DVD recordables format war (Blu Ray vs. HD DVD is the new DVD-R vs DVD+R vs DVD+RW vs DVD RAM...etc), Optware has come out with another high capacity storage contender: the Holographic Versatile Card, a credit-card sized optical disc that holds 30 GB. Not only is the HVC smaller, but Optware claims the write speed is three times faster than Blu Ray.

 Brian.Carnell.Com[ Brian.Carnell.Com] HVD Storage: News.Com ran a story earlier this month about a consortium of companies promoting a holographic storage solution called HVD. According to News.Com, the holographic discs could replace Blu-Ray and HD... gigabyte per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD Note that the author of the piece is doing

Cinemaminima.comhttp://www.cinemaminima.com [Cinemaminima.com] Cinema Minima: Personal Digital Cinema. News service for movie ...: Forget about perpendicular recording — that’s so last week. If Colorado-based InPhase Technologies has its way, the next big advance in data storage will be holographic media. The company has produced a holographic disk that can hold 300 GigaBytes (GB) on a single disk.

[Forum.physorg.com] PhysOrgForum Science, Physics and Technology Discussion Forums ...: hard to be competitive against Holographic Storage because of their high volume / high bandwidth data storage that promises to really lower the cost per gigabyte.

[Exigi.com] FLTV - South Florida TV blog and video page » Blog Archive ...: Instead, we’ll have a personalized lineup of shows that will be downloaded to the home entertainment server. This box, sitting in your garage or in the hall closet, will store all of your TV programming as well as your digital music, photo and home video collections. Of course, it will be connected to the multiple TVs and PCs in the home over a wireless network.

Scienceblog.comhttp://www.scienceblog.com [Scienceblog.com] Science Blog -- 'Opto-chips' are high-speed communications ...: The materials are used to create polymeric electro-optic modulators, or "opto-chips." These microscopic devices perform functions such as translating electrical signals - television, computer, telephone and radar - into optical signals at rates up to 100 gigabytes per second (a gigabyte is 1 billion bytes). Polymeric electro-optic materials can achieve information-processing speeds as great as 10 times those of current electronic devices and have significantly greater bandwidths than electro-optic crystals currently in use.

Iseeisay.editthispage.com[Iseeisay.editthispage.com] Is that a PC in your pocket or...?: Recently IBM developed a holographic cube that I wrote about here. Now I've found that Lucent and Imation have added their own holographic technology to further the options of holographic storage.

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