Disposable Storage Bites

This is in continuation to my earlier post 90GB to 450GB of data on A4 paper?.

Sainul seems to have taken the track that for long years we are still stuck to the binary representation of data and fancied the thought of representing data with colors which have possibility from 256 to 16 million colors. And wow! what if the colours too are in forms of shapes as circle, squares etc. the possibilities increase manifolds.

The article that spread the news puts that:

In a demo at his college laboratory, this writer could see text typed on 432 pages of foolscap paper being stored in a four square inch paper. The writer was even shown a 45-second video clip of a Malayalam film stored on an ordinary paper.

As above, only storing (actually printing out the patterns) was demonstrated not the actual retrieval of data from the stored data! So the retrieval will require scanning and parsing to get the actual data back, with care that if alignment of paper disturbs the retrieved data would not be the original one. There is no mention for these things. So, should his words be taken seriously?

As Chris Mellor has already described that even if each dot on the complete page are used for storing data, the data size mentiond in GBs cannot be achived and using patterns as circle, triangle, square will bring that figure to fractions (Of course you will require more than one dot to describe such a shape and that leftout area around the shape will go waste, which Sainul seems to have missed out

Sainul is marketing his proposed product as “Disposable storage” and “Biodegradable”. If he studies this paper on Stability study of Recordable Optical
Discs he would know that more “Biodegradable” a storage device is, the less is the life expectancy of data, and Data are stored expecting to retrieve it in later years, not to “Dispose” them off. So I think US would rather spend $5 billion (Rupees 230 billion) for storage with the current storage devices to keep them safe for retrieval years later, rather than spending Rs.3.5 million for strong on medium from which data cannot be retrieved the year next.

Though his statement at http://www.kerlontech.com/RandD.html says :

There are some rumors spreading around the world about my work, Rainbow Storage. “We can store 100s of GBs of data in a sheet of ordinary paper” is a great misunderstanding and I do believe that it is impossible with existing technologies. Many technical groups are discussing about this and they are wasting their valuable time

another page http://www.kerlontech.com/news.html on the same site says :

The technology could be further enhanced extending the life of storage producing special disks named RVD’s. This disks can store up to 400 Giga bites of data.

My last words on this subject : Sainul is an inventor indeed. Notice he invented, in lines above, a new unit called “Bites” rather than using old ones “Bits” or “Bytes”.