Fingernails Store Personal Information

Jacqueline Hewett:

Secure optical data storage could soon literally be at your fingertips thanks to work being carried out in Japan. Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses. Capacities are said to be up to 5 mega bits and the stored data lasts for 6 months - the length of time it takes a fingernail to be completely replaced.

Posted by James Zellmer at July 21, 2005 12:00 AM | Subscribe to this site via RSS:
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