New digital memory storage device can store a trillion bits of data for a billion years

September 11th, 2009 SYDNEY - A new way of storing and 'echoing' pulses of light allows bursts of laser to work as a flexible optical memory and potentially assist in extending the range of quantum information systems. A team at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum-Atom Optics has demonstrated how photon echoes can be used to create a quantum memory device - meaning that pulses of light can be captured, stored and then released on demand.

September 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In a new research, scientists at Rice University have used industry-standard lithographic techniques to deposit 10-nanometer stripes of amorphous graphite onto silicon, which brings graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality. The research, by James Tour and postdoctoral associate Alexander Sinitskii from Rice University, facilitates the creation of potentially very dense, very stable nonvolatile memory for all kinds of digital devices.

September 2nd, 2009 MELBOURNE - In a groundbreaking innovation, scientists have created an electronic device that may allow blind people to "see" using their tongues. The extraordinary technology works by taking pictures filmed by a tiny camera, and turns the information into electrical pulses, which can be felt on the tongue.

August 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - For those dreaming up runway-worthy fashions, the new digital fabric megaprinter can help them climb up the ladders of success. Fashion students of Baylor University are using a novel 50,000-dollar megaprinter for new fabric patterns to be showcased at Project Runway.

July 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has determined that the forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years. In the complete absence of stand-replacing disturbances - via fire or timber harvest - forests of Oregon and Northern California could theoretically almost double their carbon storage.

June 29th, 2009 High court won't block remote storage DVRWASHINGTON — Hollywood studios and television networks have lost a Supreme Court bid to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials. The justices, in an order Monday, say they will not disturb a federal appeals court ruling that Cablevision Systems Corp.'s remote-storage DVR does not violate copyright laws.

June 29th, 2009 High court won't block remote storage DVR systemsWASHINGTON — Hollywood studios and television networks lost their bid Monday for the Supreme Court to block the use of a new digital video recorder system that could make it cheaper and easier for viewers to record shows and watch them when they want, without commercials. The justices decline to hear arguments on whether Cablevision Systems Corp.'s remote-storage DVR violates copyright laws.

June 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers from the CNRS, the Université de Toulouse and the French Calcium Research Network, have shown that long-term memory formation in honeybees is instigated by a calcium ion cascade. Writing in the open access journal BMC Biology, the study's boffins have shown that calcium acts as a switch between short- and long-term storage of learned information.

June 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The day is not far when electronic memory chips would gain the ability to be bended and twisted, for engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to build a flexible memory component out of inexpensive, readily available materials. Although the new device is not ready to debut in the market, but it holds promise not only because of its potential applications in medicine and other fields, but also because it has the characteristics of a memristor.

May 29th, 2009 Archives offers $50,000 reward for missing dataWASHINGTON — The National Archives is offering a $50,000 reward for recovery of a missing computer drive containing sensitive Clinton administration data. The Western Digital My Book external hard drive was discovered missing about March 24 from an Archives processing room in College Park, Md.

May 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have come up with a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips and that too for more than one billion years. Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton.

April 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has found that although shoppers are attracted to crowded stores, they are less likely to buy anything from there. For the study, researchers used Pathtracker, a device attached to the bottom of a shopping cart that emits a signal every five seconds to track shoppers' paths.

April 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at North Carolina University, US, have developed a device that controls electron spin at room temperature. The researchers have designed a magnetic semiconductor memory device, using GaMnN thin films, which utilizes both the charge and spin of electrons at room temperature.

April 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - No need to panic if your hard disk is about to crash and you have not yet copied your favourite pictures and notes on a CD, for a new kind of computer memory may soon make 'back-up' a thing of the past. Racetrack memory, developed by Physicists at the University of Leeds and scientists at IBM Research's Zurich lab, may become the standard method of storing information in home computers.

February 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Plasmonics may open the way to the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems and are also smaller. 'If plasmonics are realised, the future will have circuits as small as the current electronic ones with a capacity a million times better,' said Tony Jun Huang, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State University.