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Nanotech Data Memory Products
From LaserCard Corp. and IBM
Other topics:
MEMS and
Nanomaterial Consumer Guide
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August 5, 2008
Los Altos Hills, CA -- IBM's recent nanotechnology data
storage news reads, "IBM set to supercede Flash with
superfast, high capacity, low cost Racetrack memory." and "
... the latest advances in nanowire data storage from IBM
seem set to thrash both hard drives and flash memory at
their own games." Thus, IBM plans to become a nanotech
digital data memory company.
Hidden away in Jerome Drexler's recently published
book,"Discovering Postmodern Cosmology," is Chapter 14,
which discloses that Silicon Valley-based LaserCard
Corporation (Nasdaq: LCRD - also known as Drexler
Technology) is already a nanotech digital data memory
company. The initial success of their nanotech memory
products is reflected in their LaserCard(R) optical memory
card revenues of $5.9 milion of the total of $10.7 million
in data card-related revenues reported in the June 2008
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As described in its patents, LaserCard
Corp. utilizes a sealed nanotechnology-based laser
recordable memory called Drexon(R) and a tiny semiconductor
laser to record, on a card, combinations of digital data,
visual text, and visual photographic-like images such as a
person's face. Multitudinous reflective sealed silver nano-particles
are utilized to store the laser recorded visual image data
and digital data.
More than 35 million Drexon(R)-based LaserCard optical
memory cards have been sold by LaserCard Corp. Currently
active optical memory card programs include the US Green
Card, the US Laser Visa Mexican-border-crossing card, the US
DOD logistics card, the Canadian permanent resident card,
the Italian national ID card, the Italian permanent resident
card, vehicle registration cards of several states of India,
a Costa Rican ID card and the Saudi Arabian National ID
card. Also, LaserCard Corp. is on the winning team for the
national ID card project of oil-rich Angola.
On the US Green Card, anti-counterfeit measures also include
pre-recorded nanotech photographic images of all the 50 U.S.
state flags and portraits of all the US presidents. Holders
of these cards can observe these nanotech photographic
images with a magnifying glass. Significantly, LaserCard(R)
ID cards, which utilize nanotechnology-based Drexon(R) laser
recordable media, have never been successfully
counterfeited. Drexon data storage media is also very
versatile, which makes it possible to periodically add new
system and security features for the benefit of the card
holder and issuer and to foil counterfeiters.
The Company's LaserCard patent claims describe the data
storage media as being formed from silver nano-particles
with maximum dimensions of 50 nanometers, to ensure
low-laser-power recording. Nanotechnology is defined as
structures utilizing building block particles "in the length
scale of approximately 1 to 100 nanometer range". Thus, the
LaserCard optical memory card is clearly a nanotechnology
product.
The March 2008 book "Discovering Postmodern Cosmology" is
already cataloged in the libraries of Harvard, Yale,
Cornell, University of Groningen, Sam Houston State
University, and the U.S. Naval Observatory. It has been on
Amazon.com's Best Seller lists in several countries in the
categories of applied physics, astrophysics, cosmology, or
the universe. BarnesandNoble.com also markets the book.
Drexler's May 2006 book, "Comprehending and Decoding the
Cosmos," which plausibly solves at least 15 cosmic enigmas,
is cataloged and available in over 40 astronomy and physics
libraries around the world. They include libraries at
Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UC Berkeley, Cornell,
Harvard-Smithsonian, Vassar, and the universities of Hawaii,
Toronto, Illinois, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Goettingen,
Groningen, Copenhagen, Chile, Bologna, Helsinki, Lisbon,
Guadalajara, Kyoto, and the Max-Planck-Institut for
Astrophysik.
ABOUT THE NANOTECH LASERCARD INVENTOR/ COSMOLOGY AUTHOR:
Astro-cosmologist Jerome Drexler is a former Bell Labs
member of the technical staff and group supervisor , former
research professor in physics at New Jersey Institute of
Technology, and founder of Drexler Technology and LaserCard
Corp.(Nasdaq: LCRD). He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents,
honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala
College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an
Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a
three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the 1990
"Inventor of the Year Award" for Silicon Valley and
recognition as the original inventor of the now widely-used
digital optical disk "Laser Optical Storage System." He is a
member of the Board of Overseers of New Jersey Institute of
Technology and an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board
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