Things are getting interesting ....

[kaitsdad]

My Dear Son, the bug guy working on his Phd in Entomology, just sent me the link to this article -

DNA data storage

Think of the GPS waypoints you could store with this method.

 

[dcarver]

My head hurts.

 

[Fontanaman]

My head hurts.

Carvers been drinking again!

Shoot my Zumo 550 has plenty of memory. I just buy a 8 gig chip, plug it in and I have plenty left. What needs work is improving the quality of the Zumo 4xx and 5xx digitizers which seem to die every 4 years.

Of course they way technology is going we soon may have gps displays in the helmet visors. Now that is a scary thought.

 

[SkooterG]

Wow! Amazing.

 

[doug5551]

DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage

Hal,

I think you ALREADY have plenty of stuff that can survive that long in boxes in your garage..... :dribble:

:lol: :lol:

 

[HotRodZilla]

Holy crap. Who thinks this stuff up?

 

[SkooterG]

Holy crap. Who thinks this stuff up?

People not having fun riding a motorcycle!!!

My brother in law has two PhD's. One in Electrical Engineering and one in Mathematics. He reads advanced Mathematics books for fun and enjoyment in his spare time. And he thinks *I* am the abnormal one for liking to ride long distances and travel on my motorcycle. :blink:

 

[1911]

My head hurts.

Carvers been drinking again!

Shoot my Zumo 550 has plenty of memory. I just buy a 8 gig chip, plug it in and I have plenty left. What needs work is improving the quality of the Zumo 4xx and 5xx digitizers which seem to die every 4 years.

Of course they way technology is going we soon may have gps displays in the helmet visors. Now that is a scary thought.

My Zumo was nearly usless back during the Breaks Camping rally due to digitizer issues. I still haven't gotten around to ordering a replacement screen. I may have accidently stumbled on to something that helps-storing the Zumo face down on a flat hard surface. When mine starts acting up I take it off the bike and store it face down til the next ride. It usually is good for several rides after a bellynap. I haven't searched to see if anybody else has suggested it, your post just reminded me.

 

[RadioHowie]

Just think how much storage Bustanut has wasted on sheep!

 

[beemerdons]

Just think how much storage Bustanut has wasted on sheep!

Manatee ****** says what?

 

[ndivita]

Just as I suspected. I have been meaning to let everyone know but these guys beat me to it.

 

[MCML]

The leap is absolutely stunning....now where did I put those 5.25" floppy discs and my streaming tape backup cassettes?

 

[Chuck35]

If they want something that really lasts, figure out how to store data in a twinkee or a big mac.

 

[mferriter]

A bunch of years ago (20 or so) there was some work going on in 3D optical data storage in organic materials. This is way beyond that.

 

[TheZsdad]

Yikes, These guys have taken hoarding to a totally new level.

 

[SacramentoMike]

"To read the data stored in DNA, you simply sequence it — just as if you were sequencing the human genome — and convert each of the TGAC bases back into binary.

****, it was so obvious, once they explained it. You simply do that. Duh!