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Scientists use DNA to store MP3, holds 2.2 petabytes per gram

Scientists use DNA to store MP3, holds 2.2 petabytes per gram
  • Posted January 24, 2013, 2:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
  • Further exploring the role biological processes could one day play in the evolution of technology, researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute claim to have successfully encoded 154 Shakespeare sonnets and an MP3 of Martin Luther King's  famed "I Have a Dream"…

InterAxon promises $199 brain-sensing headband in 2013

InterAxon promises $199 brain-sensing headband in 2013
  • Posted December 4, 2012, 12:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Hardware, Industry News With Video
  • At LeWeb 2012 today, crowdfunded startup InterAxon announced plans to begin selling Muse -- its brainwave-sensing headband -- to consumers in spring 2013. For anyone interested procuring a Muse of their own, they'll have until December 7 to make a…

Hitachi unveils quartz-based storage, data may last 100 million years

Hitachi unveils quartz-based storage, data may last 100 million years
  • Posted September 26, 2012, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
  • This morning Hitachi demonstrated its ability to encode data onto what it calls "quartz glass". Data etched into the material should last 100 million years, the company claims. Diamonds may be forever, but apparently quartz isn't very far behind. …

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