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Paper Based Storage overrides CDs and DVDs

Posted on 18. Feb, 2007 by Sankaranand in Technology

Can you believe that now you can store your valuable data, music, videos in a paper ? With the Revolution in Technology there are new inventions day by day which changes our lifestyle completely and that’s how Sainul Abideen of MES Engineering College have. His Rainbow Technology, a structure and technique for data that can be stored on normal paper. 

What is Rainbow Technology ?

Rainbow technology is a method or technique by which data can be stored in an ordinary paper and retrieved later with the help of a scanner. Sainul calls the storage medium as Rainbow Versatile Disc (RVD) which believed to be store upto 450GB of data. 

Cost and Performance:

Wonder how much a CD / DVD cost nowadays ? Basically a DVD cost around Rs.20 and a CD for rs.10 but this RVD will cost not more than Rs.2, The cost is absolutely very low when compared to other storage medium. Also the storage  capacity is 130 times more. 

Behind the Technology:

Sainul has completely changed the Zero’s and One’s Computing instead he uses a geometric shapes combining various colours. His new format is called ‘Rainbow Format’

Advantages and Highlights: 

• Nature of this storage medium is Biodegradable and Eco-Friendly
• Magazines like Digit, Chip etc can attach Data in a tearable sheet
• Rainbow Cards that is equal to sim card size can store 5 GB of data that cost  50 paise.

The Future:

Mr.Sainul is working with a project called Databank that reduces the server demand which costs upto Rs.25,000 crores to just Rs.35 lakh. He promises that his DataBank will meet the 123.60 Peta Byte (PB) capacity Demand. 

Source: DeccanHerald.