Fingernails: Your future storage source

Japanese researchers are working on methods to carve data onto fingernails, which one day could replace credit cards.

But what if you bite your nails?

“You’d have to get your information carved in every six months or so as the nail grows out,” reports Nature.com. Ah ha.

The scientists are using a laser to burn information onto nails via very short pulses of infrared light. When illuminated under a blue light, the information appears. Nifty, very James Bond.

Astound your friends with this Fun Trivia Fact of the Day: A fingernail can hold 800K bytes of data.

Via Drudge Report