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Storing data in everyday objects
Life's assembly and operating instructions are in the form of DNA. That's not the case with inanimate objects: anyone wishing to 3-D print an object also requires a set of instructions. If they then choose to print that same object again years later, they need access to the original digital information. The object itself does not store the printing instructions.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now collaborated with an Israeli scientist to develop a means of storing extensive information in almost any object. "With this method, we can integrate 3-D-printing instructions into an object so that after decades, or even centuries, it will be possible to obtain those instructions directly from the object itself," explains Robert Grass, Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences.
Several developments of the past few years have made this advance possible. One of them is Grass' method for marking products with a DNA "barcode" embedded in miniscule glass beads. These nanobeads are used in industry as tracers for geological tests or as markers for high-quality food products, thus distinguishing them from counterfeits using a relatively short barcode consisting of a 100-bit code. This technology has now been commercialized by ETH spin-off Haelixa.
It has become possible to store enormous data volumes in DNA. Grass's colleague Yaniv Erlich, an Israeli computer scientist, developed a method that theoretically makes it possible to store 215,000 terabytes of data in a single gram of DNA. And Grass himself was able to store an entire music album in DNA—the equivalent of 15 megabytes of data.
The two scientists have now wedded these methods into a new form of data storage, as they report in the journal Nature Biotechnology. They call the storage form DNA of Things, a takeoff on the so-called Internet of Things, in which objects are connected with information via the internet.
A DNA-of-things storage architecture to create materials with embedded memory, Nature Biotechnology (DOI: 10.1038/s41587-019-0356-z)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:36AM
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Gold-Bar-USB-flash-drive-Golden_62039438909.html [alibaba.com]
O.K. - that one doesn't really have RFID, but it could, and it could be embedded in an object and wirelessly read with tech that has had millions of copies already produced - and the mass production cost could drop below $1 a piece for a couple of GB of storage, basically enough to hold the 3D printing instructions for hundreds of objects.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:47AM
And as dielectric fillers for certain other applications, especially given that there are beads of different sizes available. Just make sure that the beads don't get broken during manufacturing, or else your product will be worthless.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:47AM (1 child)
Never underestimate the total bandwidth of 💩.
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:30PM
Where have I seen this before [youtube.com] ... ?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by barbara hudson on Tuesday December 10 2019, @03:07AM (2 children)
Sometimes it doesn't pay to overthink a problem.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday December 10 2019, @09:07AM (1 child)
Hey, easy there. Just don't just my balls, will yea? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @05:21PM
Data is stored in everyday objects. Pee is stored in the balls.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Bot on Tuesday December 10 2019, @10:56AM
i have seen enough modern to see where this is going
- car
- wat
- start
- no wai
- why
- unauthorized part detected
- impossible, last part were replaced over two months ago, car is rated very reliable for a reason, you silly dashboard pc
- battery cap B2 in the bonnet is unauthorized
- the plastic cap???
- yes
- but it's from the same model!
- no it isnt
- is
- isnt
- is
- ID nanobeads clearly state bmw/renault 330kcoupe1Q2036 while this is a bmw/renault 330ksedan1Q2036
- the fucking plastic cap is marked?
- sure is, we don't want somebody to steal the car and remove the markings do we?
- please, somebody, steal this sh!t
- I take it as a shutdown request, can't start the car anyway. Bye
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:48PM
All creation is information setup a certain way. The way molecules and information is stored tells us whether the person is a satanist jew or a human. The way a set of bytes are stored tells whether that is a video of a documentary about jewish crimes against humanity or a propaganda video made by satanic jews to brainwash humans and human children.
And they will tell you over and over that you are not in control of your actions. That you must follow the most perverse unnatural desires you can generate. That is the work of satanist jews from khazaria.
If anyone thinks anything a satanic jew touches is still safe, think again. The information storage will be used to surreptitiously poison people and make them hosts for jewish parasites.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 10 2019, @02:13PM
oh the irony:
in a few decades when aliens visit earth for the first time and see the modern cities, they will ask why everything looks so non-functional?
the answer from the earthling, behind the hand, will be so there's enough space to hide all the holy books of all earth religion in dna-nano-bead storage capsules ....