25Gb Corndisk?

[i l l m a t i c]

Giving a new meaning to the term grassroots music, Pioneer Corp. said Thursday it had developed a next-generation disc made of corn to let the eco-conscious consumer dispose of data in the soil.

 

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20041101/corndisc.html

 

Salsa anyone?

[Swithin]

I can see the RIAA jumping on this...

 

"Whose are these MP3s? These are NACHO MP3s!"

 

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sorry

[random guy]

Hmm...I wonder how long the discs last though?

[ken_cinder]

Mmmm bust out the salsa con queso! (Seriously, could you not see yourself having a Blu-Ray burner one day, and mistakenly eating one of your discs while sitting at the computer? I know I could!)

 

FYI Sony and some other company have also created a Blu-Ray disc made from PAPER, and you can cut it with scissors to destroy it. How ingenious. NOT! Talk about easy to damage.

[Daeval]

FYI Sony and some other company have also created a Blu-Ray disc made from PAPER, and you can cut it with scissors to destroy it. How ingenious. NOT! Talk about easy to damage.

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I don't think they ever suggested them for practical everyday use. They're more for sensetive information that needs to be temporarily made available on disk and then destroyed.

 

I never realized how cool that site was for news. This is awesome: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html

[darkmage479]

you can make discs out of anything, as long as it's sensitive enough to cut the fine grooves for the laser (especially the precise new blue laser) to read. There was an article in the magazine New Scientist:

 

New Scientist Online: Super-Tough Coating for LCDs and Disks

 

which discussed the use of transparent silica-polymer resin that can be used to coat DVDs and LCD screens to make them scratch-resistant.

 

Also on the horizon are self-destructing DVDs that release chemicals that cool in the grooves and make the disk unplayable. This has applications in rentals, promos, etc. Unfortunately, New Scientist already determined that the current disks are heat-sensitive, so keeping it in your fridge extends it life by at least a factor of 5

 

cool stuff on the horizon, eh?

[Shibathedog]

heh, that means when i rent movies and stuff i wont be able to wait too long before ripping it to the PC

[Ghosty]

Corn? What Are They Going To Do? Make 'Em Out Of Old News Papers?

 

And I See This Vary Dumb, For Example:

Me:OMG YOU F UCKING IDIOT YOU SPILLED SODA ON MY DISK!

Friend: Its Only Soda,...

Disk: I"M MELTING! MELLLLTTTING!

[Gryph]

Once the disc is pressed down, it'll probably not behave like corn.

 

Did anyone read about the microprocessor some university was making with chicken bones or feathers? That was cool.

[Daeval]

The disk is coated with a resin that is "too hard for teeth" or however they put it. It should be just as tough as the plastic on CDs and DVDs.

[i l l m a t i c]

Corn? What Are They Going To Do? Make 'Em Out Of Old News Papers?

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Actually they already made disc out of paper too...LOL...too lazy to find da link...