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| Thread ID: 60045 | 2005-07-20 22:34:00 | Thumbthing's Wrong Here | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 373956 | 2005-07-20 22:34:00 | Of course if you leave the company, the thumb :thumbs: stays here: Why bother with a USB thumbdrive, when you can store data in your thumb itself -- the fingernail, specifically. Researchers at the University of Tokushima have developed a means of storing data on the human fingernail by burning microscopic dots into its surface. At present, the amount of data stored via the method is negligible -- just some tiny numbers, but researchers say a single fingernail could someday accommodate 800 kilobytes of data or so. Not quite the capacity (or flexibility) of a thumbdrive, but enough to store some basic identification information. |
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| 373957 | 2005-07-20 22:37:00 | I see the amewrican goverment buying this technology up when released to keep track of there citizens | plod (107) | ||
| 373958 | 2005-07-21 00:28:00 | Not quite the capacity (or flexibility) of a thumbdrive, but enough to store some basic identification information.I think someone already did that using the other side of the thumb :-) -Qyiet |
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