It sounds to be a far fetched idea when you say that a paper based storage system can store massive amounts of data. Well after this breakthrough, this idea seems viable. A twenty four year old student from Muslim Educational Society Engineering College, Sainul Abideen has developed a RVD or Rainbow Versatile Disc which uses geometric shapes such as circles, squares and triangles along with color codes instead of traditional 1s and 0s. The data on a RVD is stored in the form of images. The combination of geometric form a complete pattern which are more commonly used in image processing, pattern matching etc. Now to read the data, a scanner is used to decode the image back to data. At present, the scanner is big but Sainul is working it to make it more compact which would easily fit in laptops. The benefits are worth noting. To make a single RVD, it is 90% cheaper than a CD and stores 131 times more than the latter with the help of Vertical Lining. Other than that, it is environment friendly.
[Via Keral]
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