Nerdy Science Post

Awesome memory technology advancement. Called: graphene memory.

"A team at Rice University has determined that a strip of graphite only 10 atoms thick can serve as the basic element in a new type of memory, making massive amounts of storage available for computers, handheld media players, cell phones and cameras."

TEN ATOMS THICK!

"Graphene memory would increase the amount of storage in a two-dimensional array by a factor of five, he said, as individual bits could be made smaller than 10 nanometers, compared to the 45-nanometer circuitry in today’s flash memory chips."

Your 8 gig iPod nano (if your one of those iPodders) is suddenly a 40 gig iPod.

"Being essentially a mechanical device, such chips will consume virtually no power while keeping data intact"

And I don't know why but I found this to be the coolest.

"While generating little heat itself, graphene memory seems impervious to a wide temperature range, having been tested from minus 75 to more than 200 degrees Celsius with no discernible effect, Tour said."

Check it out!