By Chris Mellor, Techworld
How much information can you store on an A4 sheet? Well, according to some new technology designed by an Indian engineering student, an extraordinary 256GB.
http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=7424
This is an advance of something that was around some 15 years ago. There was a way of encoding data on paper in hi density, and using a special scanner, retrieving it. Low cost optical storage. It might have been Kodak. I was going to buy one of those scanners etc to use for backup, but the idea died.
Graham http://www.synapsedirect.com/ Synapse - the EMR for smart users
Interesting, but you can't share it easily with others (like digital data on a server) and it would appear that such media is easily damaged.
One of my customers is using th Fujitsu ScanSnap solution to digitize their paper records and while a different solution with less pizazz, is a good way to go because you can tag existing records that were created before you had EMR and attach them to the existing patient record.
http://scansnap.fujitsu.com/ss_products.html
Darn, I was hoping to catch more people on this.
Of course it's a fake !
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/11/26/140240.shtml
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Scam_of_Indian_student_developing_technology_to_store_450_GB_on_paper
It's not clear that it is a scam.
This is the prior art that I recalled.
alltp:I knew it wasn't true - you'd need to have at least Legal size paper to make this work!
lol