Optical Card for Limitless Data Storage

In 1974, Mike Thomas was making five-meg disk packs - the biggest in the world, at the time. But IBM, Burroughs, Honeywell and other major computer makers said no one would ever need that much storage.

In 1989, Bill Gates said a PC would never need more than 256 Kbytes of cache memory and 40 megabytes of hard drive storage. And yet today's PC has on average 64 megabytes of cache and 20 to 60 gigabyte hard drives.

In short, Thomas predicted the need for mega storage systems in 1974, and he's still at it. In fact, as far as he's concerned, the need isn't diminishing - it's increasing.

He has even invented a new phrase for physics called "photon induced electric field poling of a ferroelectric / chalcogenide / phase change material" he patented in 1998.

The world needs storage capacity. Lots of capacity, he says - which not at all coincidentally also makes possible the development of hundreds of amazing systems.

And that's why he now runs a company called, appropriately, Colossal Storage.

Imagine a 2D / 3D data storage device whose physical component is about the size of a pack of business cards each holding from Gigabytes to Petabytes of limitless removable data storage.

That's not all.

It would also hold every music CD and movie DVD you ever owned, or will own, and still leave space for not only your family album, and all your software operating system and applications.

And no more expensive upgrades. As better designs and firmware became available, you'd simply download the new firmware device drivers from the manufacturer.

The drive will cost about $ 300 and the business cards storage would cost about $ 25.

Colossal Storage expects to have the new product on the market around 2010 and possibly even sooner if new business ventures come online quicker.