Have you ever thought about storing your massive data on a piece of paper? Impossible! Well it's not entirely impossible now as a Kerala(India) student, Sainul, has developed a technique known as "Rainbow Technology" whereby data can now be stored on ordinary paper.
Basically, the principle underlying this technique is to use geometric shapes such as circles, squares and triangles for computing combining with various colors and preserve the data in images instead of using conventional way; the application of binary bits (zeroes and ones). A lot of questions might come across your mind right now; how the data can be retrieved, how's the transfer rate of data and many more.
To start with, all the data need to be converted to a common format called “Rainbow Formatâ€. In order to retrieve the data back, all you need to have is a scanning drive (had been developed for the purpose of demonstration). This new ground-breaking technology apparently has a lot of advantages. The storage devices will be shrunk drastically and the biodegradable nature of this storage device will surely show a promising future to our environment.
Quoting a research study carried out in the US in 2003, he says the entire static data in the US would require $5 billion (Indian Rupees 230 billion) for storage with the current storage devices. But Rainbow based databank could reduce the cost to Rs.3.5 million. He says he could construct databank with almost 123.60 Peta Byte (PB) capacity.
Peta byte? Yeah, we are now moving on to a new realm of terminology. ;)
Source: ArabNews
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Wow. Amazing. Never heard of anything like storing information on a piece of paper. Maybe this technology or future technology like this will help develop the emerging so called “cloud computing” that everyone talks about. We’ll see.