Coming to a data center or lunchroom near you
The author of this story in Wired, Eric Smalley, is having way more fun than journalists are ordinarily allowed to have:
Your next data storage device could be a fish.
As revealed by a paper in the academic journal Applied Physics Letters, researchers from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany recently used salmon DNA to build a write-once-read-many (WORM) data storage device. Data is written to the device with a laser and read electronically, and you can enjoy the thought that your data’s sitting on a piece of sushi.
The headline on the actual scientific paper is nowhere near as much fun: “Photoinduced write-once read-many-times memory device based on DNA biopolymer nanocomposite.”
You can find it here.
