Holographic storage enters blue era

optics.org: "Inphase Technologies, a spin-out from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, US, claims to have developed the world's first holographic storage material that uses blue laser light to store data. The media called 'Tapestry HDS5000' will be used in the Colorado-based firm's first generation of 200 GB holographic drives which are due to hit the market by 2006.

The disc material, which is photosensitive to blue light between 400 and 410 nm, is also being offered to other drive developers as a 120 or 130 mm diameter discs or 3x3 / 2x3 inch slides........
...According to Liz Murphy, director of marketing at InPhase, the firm has a roadmap to develop 130 mm diameter discs that store up to 1.6Tb of data by 2010. She also says the technology will be cost effective. "We aim to reach 25 cents per Gigabyte, that's just $50 for a 200Gb disc."

jaynote: current hard drive prices
120 gig = $89
160 gig = $110
200 gig = $150
I could see this being a good alternative to DLT tapes

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At USDA, the Mouse Is in the House

(washingtonpost.com) : "Employees at the Department of Agriculture's main cafeteria were just sitting down to lunch on Friday when security guards ordered everyone in the huge eatery to leave. Al Qaeda? Bomb scare? No. Mouse droppings. The D.C. Department of Health closed the cafeteria for failing to pass inspection. Yes, the USDA, home to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the meat and poultry inspectors -- the agency that is part of the federal system for protecting the nation's food supply, was in violation of the D.C. Health Code. There were several citations, according to the inspection report, including: 'water leaking excessively' in the ceiling, employees not wearing hair restraints, and inadequate cleaning of the inside of ice machines, cabinets, surfaces and equipment. The biggest problem, however, seemed to be mouse droppings found everywhere -- in the dry storage room, by the salad bar, behind the ovens, near the serving line, ...

Artist turns animals into everyday objects

Ananova - A Chilean artist is making a name for herself with an exhibition in which stuffed animals are transformed into household objects. Artworks on display include a chick turned into a lamp, and 'sheep bag' - a lamb carcass fitted with handles. Artist Caterina Purdy says her exhibition at the Experimental Arts Centre in Santiago is intended to be humorous but also makes a serious point. She told Las Ultimas Noticias online: 'It is possible to see my work as something scary, but I find it beautiful. 'There is also irony and humour in my objects as well as a criticism of the way animals are treated by society.'"

BW Online | March 1, 2004 | Software : "As Stephen and Deepa emerge this summer from graduate school -- one in Pittsburgh, the other in Bombay -- they'll find that their decisions of a half-decade ago placed their dreams on a collision course. The Internet links that were being pieced together at the turn of the century now provide broadband connections between multinational companies and brainy programmers the world over. For Deepa and tens of thousands of other Indian students, the globalization of technology offers the promise of power and riches in a blossoming local tech industry. But for Stephen and his classmates in the U.S., the sudden need to compete with workers across the world ushers in an era of uncertainty. Will good jobs be waiting for them when they graduate? 'I might have been better served getting an MBA,' Stephen says."

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