Now Store 500,000GB of Songs on Your MP3 Player!
Scientists at Glasgow University along with experts at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington have developed a technology that would allow MP3 players to support around 500,000 GB of storage space. It is said to hold 50,000 times more songs than the currently available models, which is around 3.3 gigabytes.
This molecule-sized switch is expected to allow 500,000GB to be compressed onto one square inch. It is controlled by taking nanoparticles and placing them on to a gold or carbon surface. Each of these nanopartciles is a millionth of a millimetre in size.
Dr. Vin Dhanak of the laboratory mentioned, “This research shows that the potential is there for your future iPod to have hundreds of thousands times more capacity to store music and video than currently possible.”
The switch is a metal oxide ball, which is prepared of similar stuff to normal semi-conductors. However, this switch is simpler to control as a separate molecular unit.
Professor Lee Cronin, of Glasgow University, stated, “What we have done is find a way to potentially increase the data storage capabilities in a radical way.”
The research on the molecule-sized switch was reported in this month’s edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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