Skynet is coming...

[magicmike]

check this out. just plain crazy what they are doing with computers...

http://www.muchosucko.com/video-thefuture.html

[stipro]

That is one of the craziest things I have ever seen. To creepy, but cool.

[jnorion]

Wow, crazy.

[entirelyturbo]

The pr0n makes it NWS so be forewarned.

Still nuts nonetheless.

[AWD_addict]

That is some amazing stuff.
I doubt it would be practical for home users. People would be lazy about changing the plates and they would get stratched and messed up.

[Tleg93]

That's some cool stuff. I think that optical computers will become practical. And just wait until you get the holographical projection display. They're working on that and have been for some time. Some day it will all be optics, light and lasers. It's funny, but that makes me think of Superman.

Hmmm, I wonder if this will mesh with retinal implants?

[LegacyPunk]

don't have my contacts in, thought that said "rectal" implants .

[Tleg93]

Rectal implants, now that would be a shitty thing to do to someone.

[AWD_addict]

This computer can do amazing things... but it has to go in your butt.
That's like something from South Park.

[legacy92ej22t]

Is that an OLED display? That's what it looked like. If it is, OLED displays run something like a $100 a square inch. Nice but still too spendy for consumer markets.

[Tleg93]

OLED? I'm not sure but I think that those go beyond an OLED display. Those are optical memory storage devices. Unless I'm mistaken, they are holographic memory devices. The data inside the memory is burned using a similar process to the one used to make three dimensional holographic images with a laser. They shine a laser on a substrate treated with a photosensitive emulsion using a bifringent laser pattern to create a data image. The result is that when you shine a laser through the device you can 'see' the data inside.

I made a simple hologram in my college laser optics class. When you use a beam expander on a HeNe laser and shine it through the glass plate with the image you created on it, it creates a three dimensional image on the wall that looks like you could walk up to it an hold it in your hand. That was a while ago so I imagine that now they're able to use other color lasers (R, G, B) to create these multicolor images, it's the new wave of computing. The way things are now they're approaching the physical limitations of the hardware style we currently use (metal processors, rotating hard drives, and even capacitive memory sticks). Processors can't operate on much faster clocks because of the heat and electromagnetic skimming effect.

In the future it wil all be optical media and that's good because a photon (or wave) has no specific size and can theoretically access a three or more dimensional data matrix of infinitely small size. That creates the possiblity of having HUGE amounts of data storage on a tiny, tiny optical media device and I don't mean CD's, I mean those things. Imagine being able to store data in three dimensions. Right now, there's only two, CAS and RAS...unless I missed something along the way.

Just wait until the DNA computational devices develop...that has other potential.

[Tleg93]

Here, check this link I found

http://www.litiholographics.com/technol ... nology.htm