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Hard drive storage is based on switching magnetic states by magnetism. Switching by laser light could be much faster and could be used on non-spinning media. Laser light switching of a magnetic medium is described in a PhD thesis, Laser-Induced Femtosecond Magnetic Recording, written by Dr Daniel Stanciu, currently a …

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  1. bell

    Great.

    It's fantastic to see that there's corporate investment in this sort of basic research. They'll need to put some time into the firmware too though.

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  2. ben
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    pew pew,

    May I be the first to welcome our picosecond wielding lazer shooting overlords of immense memory?

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  3. Eddie Edwards
    Happy

    Yeah

    Pizzo electric. Yeah. It's like a pizza, but when you flex it it generates an electric current.

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  4. Robert Ramsay

    Maybe after the recent news about their CEO etc.

    it won't be Seagate doing it.

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  5. alan

    awesome

    pewpew ftw pwnt omgwtf win

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    GMR

    I was very disappointed that GMR did not involve Giants with Magnets.

    Similarly, disappointed by the Pizzo-Electric effect.

    Atomic Force Microscopes anyone? And who are Atomic Force? I suspect that they are DC rather than Marvel and include a particularly wanky superhero along the lines of Van der Waals force Boy.

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