MEMORY CUBE BREAKS RECORD
The promise of pocket-sized storage devices that can hold not only your music collection but your entire DVD library too has been around for over a decade, thanks to a device called an optical cube that can cram in 1000 gigabytes (New Scientist, 13 August 1994, p 22). The problem is that no one has yet managed to read or write the data fast enough to make them viable as a commercial device.
Now a team lead by Masaharu Nakano at Shizuoka University, Japan, has created a nanoscale structure that can store 2000 gigabytes of…
