January 2, 2014 at 08:40Graphene Drive Concept Received Red Dot Design Awards
The futuristic design of the new type of storage media was awarded the prestigious Red Dot Design Awards Winner , and the startup with the strange name dataSTICKIES , which created a flash concept based on graphene film-thick, intends to show a working prototype of the device in the relatively near future.
The starting point for designers from India, Parag Anand & Aditi Singh (Parag Anand & Aditi Singh) was the idea of relieving users of the difficulties with flash drives that are difficult to insert into the computer on the right side, especially when the port is located on the back of the device. For this, the designers developed the concept of the Optical Data Transfer Surface (ODTS), which in turn will be connected to the drives themselves, which are a thin graphene film with a layer of glue, similar to how it is done on paper stickers.
ODTS is a transparent panel of special conductive glue that is attached to the device’s body, for example, a monitor, and is connected wirelessly to a computer, and flash drives that also have a conductive adhesive layer are glued to this panel. When reading or writing data, the edges of the film will be highlighted to indicate the process.
As the marketing images of these drives show, they will consist of at least three layers, where in the center there will be a graphene layer with a thickness of several atoms, and the outer surfaces will be protective surfaces made of flexible multi-colored translucent plastic with adhesive areas for data transfer, and this plastic can be written with a marker, as on sticky notes. It is understood that several such flash drives can be glued together to increase the total volume, in which case the connected drives will act as a single device, but if you need to transfer one file to someone, this can be done simply by unsticking one of the flash drives.
Graphene was chosen as an information carrier for its outstanding properties not only as a very thin material, but also the most durable of the existing ones - a few years ago, researchers from Rice University showed a technology for creating memory from a graphene film with a thickness of only ten atoms, which could potentially provide volume memory comparable to modern flash drives, but can withstand temperatures of 200 degrees Celsius and the level of radiation that would destroy any of the modern storage media . At the moment, developers expect to fit on small graphene stickers from 4 to 32 GB of data.
The startup of two Indian designers set itself the goal not only to design a new device for storing data, but also new scenarios for working with such media. For example, the ODST wireless data transmission system can be connected not only to a computer, but also to a phone, TV system and music center, accessing drives from any of these devices, and the flash drive concept itself removes the obstacles between the virtual and physical worlds - data becomes easier to associate with physical objects, such as books or magazines, where information related to a certain topic can be literally glued to the page.
So far, this is only the concept that won the 2013 Red Dot Award.but judging by everything, we can still find times when storage media will become an inexpensive expendable material, as well as notes, notebooks or stickers, paper for which was also once expensive. Whether this will happen soon is unknown, but, in any case, there are prerequisites for this. In the meantime - happy new year, Habr!
The starting point for designers from India, Parag Anand & Aditi Singh (Parag Anand & Aditi Singh) was the idea of relieving users of the difficulties with flash drives that are difficult to insert into the computer on the right side, especially when the port is located on the back of the device. For this, the designers developed the concept of the Optical Data Transfer Surface (ODTS), which in turn will be connected to the drives themselves, which are a thin graphene film with a layer of glue, similar to how it is done on paper stickers.
ODTS is a transparent panel of special conductive glue that is attached to the device’s body, for example, a monitor, and is connected wirelessly to a computer, and flash drives that also have a conductive adhesive layer are glued to this panel. When reading or writing data, the edges of the film will be highlighted to indicate the process.
As the marketing images of these drives show, they will consist of at least three layers, where in the center there will be a graphene layer with a thickness of several atoms, and the outer surfaces will be protective surfaces made of flexible multi-colored translucent plastic with adhesive areas for data transfer, and this plastic can be written with a marker, as on sticky notes. It is understood that several such flash drives can be glued together to increase the total volume, in which case the connected drives will act as a single device, but if you need to transfer one file to someone, this can be done simply by unsticking one of the flash drives.
Graphene was chosen as an information carrier for its outstanding properties not only as a very thin material, but also the most durable of the existing ones - a few years ago, researchers from Rice University showed a technology for creating memory from a graphene film with a thickness of only ten atoms, which could potentially provide volume memory comparable to modern flash drives, but can withstand temperatures of 200 degrees Celsius and the level of radiation that would destroy any of the modern storage media . At the moment, developers expect to fit on small graphene stickers from 4 to 32 GB of data.
The startup of two Indian designers set itself the goal not only to design a new device for storing data, but also new scenarios for working with such media. For example, the ODST wireless data transmission system can be connected not only to a computer, but also to a phone, TV system and music center, accessing drives from any of these devices, and the flash drive concept itself removes the obstacles between the virtual and physical worlds - data becomes easier to associate with physical objects, such as books or magazines, where information related to a certain topic can be literally glued to the page.
So far, this is only the concept that won the 2013 Red Dot Award.but judging by everything, we can still find times when storage media will become an inexpensive expendable material, as well as notes, notebooks or stickers, paper for which was also once expensive. Whether this will happen soon is unknown, but, in any case, there are prerequisites for this. In the meantime - happy new year, Habr!