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Paper to be data storage future?

Thursday 30 November, 2006

While paper normally finds its place in the office environment on the load tray of a printer, ready to be covered with printer ink, a man from India has said that paper could actually be the future of data storage.

With disks, CDs and now DVDs all offering data storage solutions for office and home users, it is logical to think the next step in the process would not involve paper. However, Sainul Abideen has said that his Rainbow Versatile Disc (RVD) is the next big thing.

With the RVD system, data is converted into geometric coloured shapes which can then be put through a special reader. This means A4 paper has the capacity to store 256 gigabytes of information, much higher than the 4.5 gigabytes of a traditional CD.

This is because paper can hold data at a much higher density than more recognised, modern methods of data storage.

It is not known whether the step to use paper as the main data storage method will catch on, with some online discussions reportedly sceptical about taking paper away from the printer and to the computer.

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