1999 Technology development company C3D Inc. will demonstrate its new high-capacity storage media for the first time in the United States tomorrow. Calif. The company already held successful public demonstrations of the product in Israel earlier this fall. The FMC would be for use in portable devices such as cellular phones, PDAs and, potentially, portable digital audio players. In both card and disk, data will be read simultaneously from the many layers within the media. C3D statements indicate that the company is poised to commence negotiations with several strategic joint-venture partners, and that it is expected to begin production of its first commercial devices within 12 months.
Information is stored and retrieved using fluorescence of the media instead of reflection.
Coherent and incoherent light is emitted once the fluorescence is stimulated by laser light, but data is stored only in the incoherent light. This fluorescence property enables writing and reading of multi-layer structures with much greater storage capacity than offered by current optical memory products. The C3D demonstration comes on the heels of Friday's announcement from Pioneer that it will launch the world's first recordable DVD player and disks in North America and Europe next year. Please post them on our message board . Inc. All rights reserved.