# Paper: The next-gen storage medium (?)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paper-the-next-gen-storage-medium/208327>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [November 27, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paper-the-next-gen-storage-medium/208327 "2006-11-27T18:13:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![thoriphes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@thoriphes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thoriphes)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/paper-the-next-gen-storage-medium/208327/1 "2006-11-27T18:13:24Z")

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I found this article pretty interesting. A student was able to put 256GB of data on a single 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, encoding data as a series of shapes and colors. He’s developed a proprietary scanner that will read this data into a computer and is supposedly small enough to fit inside a laptop. Next best thing or next horrible flop. You be the judge.

[Article](http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=disaster_recovery&articleId=9005393&taxonomyId=151&intsrc=kc_top)

[Counter-article](http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061126-8288.html)