Oh, Man…

I’m salivating. Yes, I know...that makes me a geek. Whatever.

Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers’ pockets within a few years.

Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of—and 1,000 times as energy-efficient as—flash memory, the predominant memory technology in iPhones and other mobile devices.

“A thumb drive using our memory could store a terabyte of information,” says Michael Kozicki, director of ASU’s Center for Applied Nanoionics, which developed the technology. “All the current limitations in portable electronic storage could go away. You could record video of every event in your life and store it.”

This means hard drives may go the way of the 8 track. Of course, solid state memory isn’t as fast as hard drives yet, but if they can make a terabyte thumb drive, they will fix that, too.

What I love about this is I will be able to back up my files more easily and take them anywhere. Right now I have a bunch of 1 gig thumb drives I use to transfer files between computers. But, oh to have something like this. I could store my music and video collection on them. I would be able to archive a lot more stuff like comic art.

Hurry up, guys!

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