{"id":110278,"date":"2020-07-21T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/ibm-seriously-just-turned-an-atom-into-the-worlds-smallest-hard-drive"},"modified":"2020-07-21T13:14:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T20:14:05","slug":"ibm-seriously-just-turned-an-atom-into-the-worlds-smallest-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/ibm-seriously-just-turned-an-atom-into-the-worlds-smallest-hard-drive","title":{"rendered":"IBM Seriously Just Turned an Atom Into The World\u2019s Smallest Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2laKpYWIa5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Data storage technology continues to shrink in size and grow in capacity, but scientists have just taken things to the next level \u2014 they\u2019ve built a nanoscale hard drive using a single atom.<\/p>\n<p>By magnetising an atom, cooling it with liquid helium, and storing it in an extreme vacuum, the team managed to store a single bit of data (either a 1 or a 0) in this incredibly miniscule space.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough room for your holiday photos then, but according to the team from IBM Research in California, this proof-of-concept approach could eventually lead to drives the size of a credit card that could hold the entire iTunes or Spotify libraries, at about 30 million songs each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Data storage technology continues to shrink in size and grow in capacity, but scientists have just taken things to the next level \u2014 they\u2019ve built a nanoscale hard drive using a single atom. By magnetising an atom, cooling it with liquid helium, and storing it in an extreme vacuum, the team managed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110282,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110278\/revisions\/110282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}