256GB USB drive!?

Dammit, I just bought a 64MB one yesterday


Is that site real or not? If it''s real then how can such an amazing company have such a craptastic website.

Those images on the front page look extreemly fake.

edit: not to mention the fact that searching for "Atom Chip Corporation" in google (in quoes) turns up 5 websites...

[edited by - Andrew Russell on February 6, 2004 7:29:14 AM]

No way - it''s definitly a fake.

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I think it''s a fake.

The site itself looked fake to me too at first sight, but their links under "awards" really work:

http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/18/index.htm

etc...

Then again, dunno how reliable this compu-technics thing is.

Thats just another bit of science thats too far off into the distance for public consumption...

A video camera with 5gb would be cool... but more than that for what? you going to shoot the 3 LOTR back-to-back, lol...

No seriously, unless it really drops price ($50 per 1GB, 256Gb=12.800 USD) I dont think it will have much market penetration...

And the website is sooo bad that it can *only* be real, lol...

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"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It''s the only way to be sure."

One time I held my breath for like a minute and a half.

ok.

Heh,that
http://www.compu-technics.com
aren't reliable:google search(for Atom Chip Corporation) shows only it and atomchip.com, so we can't trust it.

that russian award('moscow' link)...
http://www.compu-technics.com/pages/21/index.htm
first time hear that.
Strange,
http://www.compu-technics.com/images/480_r-5.jpg
that papers are awarded not to corporation but to Shimon Gend?in

,translation:
Awarded

Shimon Gend?in

for active participating in organizing of "salon"
(scan is really bad and i don't reconginse fifth letter in Gend?in)
Also,
"On the left photo, second from the right, is the daughter of Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut of our planet"
Too poor quality of photo.I can't be sure.Looks like.Why not?

Papers are really in russian, but there's nothing in papers about "atomic chip",only about Shimon. On atomic page there's nothing about Shimon.
Google search for Shimon Gendlin,Gendkin,etc,shows nothing.

edit:Ops.First result shows that maybe he works on optics,nothing related to atomic chip corporation .
http://www.japaninc.net/print.php?articleID=655

[edited by - Dmytry on February 6, 2004 10:36:00 AM]

I don''t know how accurate windows disk space pie thing is, but 41Gb used on a 256Gb drive is 16%. That pie image looks more like 25%.

Why does that screenshot prove anything? It just says they have a local disk with a capcity of 255gb and a label of OPTICAL-255.

Let''s compute how many info could be stured in cubic millimeter using optics...say,density are one bit in 500 nm^3 (light wavelenght that have blue-green color)

That''s cube of 2k^3 in mm^3 , 2k^3 it''s only 8 gigabits=1 gigabyte,

it''s certanly possible to,after loong work on it,after having that modules with 1gb/mm^3 in everyday use,rearch 3.2 gigabytes/mm^3. I think we should have optics with density 1gb in mm^3 long before 3.2 gb on mm^2 .

So i think it''s fake,and maybe it''s awarded fake.

Definitely a fake. Optical technology on that level is definitely outside the realm of what we can do right now.

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i dont know if it is fake, but some 5years ago ive read an scientific article describing a new technologie that can store some 10 terabytes on medias of the size of pcmcia cards, the article also mentioned that this could be in a marktable state 5 years later (today)... it was based on organic material (won from bacteria) that then was readout by a laser...


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The real thing to think about here is:

Who might have an interest in slowing down huge-storage technologies?

Look that the solar chip, how can any look at that and think it was real?

Well a quick search of the Better Business Bureau says it''s not a real business. But I don''t know if they have listings from other countries.

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Original post by AndreTheGiant
One time I held my breath for like a minute and a half.

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loser, I did two and a half minutes once.

Take a look at the "screenshot" again. It SURE looks like they:

1. Took a screenshot for a legit device.
2. Printed it out on a color printer.
3. Cut out strips of PAPER! with their numbers on them and glued them over the real numbers. Notice how the numbers are distorted and how there appear to be seems bordering the device capacity display.
3. Scanned it in.
4. Stuck it in (crookedly I might add!) the image of the monitor.

Not just fake, but amazingly so. You'd think they could make it look a LITTLE more realistic...

[edited by - bob_the_third on February 6, 2004 5:30:39 PM]