Tiny breakthrough in gadget memory

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Tiny breakthrough in gadget memory

UK-based scientists have developed a way of dramatically increasing the memory on iPods and other gadgets while retaining their small size.

UK-based scientists have developed a way of dramatically increasing the memory on iPods and other gadgets while retaining their small size.

Future devices could store 150,000 times the amount of current models, according to researchers at Glasgow University.

They have created a tiny switch which would see 500,000-one million gigabytes squeezed on to one square inch. The current limit is around 3.3 gigabytes.

The technology is being developed along with scientists at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington.

The molecular switch is controlled by taking nanoparticles, each a millionth of a millimetre in size, and placing them on to a gold or carbon surface.

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