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1. INTRODUCTION
Rainbow technology, a breakthrough in digital data storage enables us to store up to a
massive 450GB on just a piece of paper. Rainbow Storage is a group of techniques to store
digital data in some colors, color combinations and some symbols known as rainbow format, and
therefore a rainbow picture will be generated. The technique is used to achieve high-density
storage. With the help of Rainbow system we would be watching full-length high-definition
videos from a piece of paper.
The main attraction is the cheap paper. The Rainbow technology is feasible because
printed text, readable by the human eye is a very wasteful use of the potential capacity of paper
to store data. By printing the data encoded in a denser way much higher capacities can be
achieved. Paper is, of course, bio-degradable, unlike CDs or DVDs. And sheets of paper also cost
a fraction of the cost of a CD or DVD.
2. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?
4. IMPLEMENTATION REQUIREMENTS::
Discs can now be developed from plastic paper too which will be able to hold
450 GB of data.
In order to read the Rainbow prints, all that is required is a scanner and specialized
software. Smaller scanners could fit inside laptop computers or mobile phones, and read SIM
card-sized RVD's containing 5GB of data.
The recording media could be either paper or plastic sheets. The piece of paper or even
plastic sheet storing the data has just to be scanned in the scanner and read over the monitor. A
scanning drive based on the Rainbow software has simultaneously been developed which will
come in smaller sizes to be initially carried with the laptops and later to fit into their bodies.
The developer is simultaneously moulding the technology into 'Rainbow Cards' which
will be of SIM card size and store 5 GB of data equivalent to three films of DVD quality.
As 'Rainbow Cards' will become Popular, Rainbow Card Readers will replace CD
drives of mobile phone and computer notebooks and will enable more data in portable forms
for mini digital readers. Large scale manufacture of the Rainbow card will bring down its cost
to just 50 paise
Principle I
Every color or color combinations can be converted in to some values and from the
values the colors or color combinations can be regenerated.
Principle II
Every different color or color combinations will produce different values.
Using this technology an A4 sheet of paper could store 256GB of data. In comparison,
a DVD can store 4.7GB of data.
Paper is, of course, bio-degradable, unlike CDs or DVDs. And sheets of paper also
cost a fraction of the cost of a CD or DVD.
6. ADVANTAGES:
$500 crores (23000 crores). But by using data banks, a similar server can be made with
Rs.35 lacks. All the available films and other static data can be used by paying cash with
the internet. Almost 125.603 PB data storage is possible in a Data Bank.
freelence software developer.
Un-authorized copies of the films can be controlled to a certain limit using these cards.
7. DISADVANTAGES::
The paper has the tendency to fade away hence the data loss may occur.
With the extremely low cost of using this technology we can always afford to have multiple
copies.
8. CONCLUSION:
Once the Rainbow technology is in, soon we would be watching full-length highdefinition videos from a piece of paper! With the popularity of the Rainbow Technology,
computer or fashion magazines in future need not carry CDs in a pack.
One of the major advantages of the Rainbow system is the fact that it should cost a lot
less to produce than the typical polycarbonate DVDs, CDs and now Blu- rays. Huge data
banks can be constructed out of Rainbow-based storage medium.
9. BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. "Data Can Now Be Stored on Paper" by M. A. Siraj, Arab News (published November
18, 2006; accessed November 29, 2006)
2. Paper storage man misunderstood The Inquirer article, 12 December 2006 (retrieved
15 December 2006.
3. "Store 256GB on an A4 sheet" by Chris Mellor, Techworld (published November 24,
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sheet of paper By IT Soup (published November 25, 2006; accessed November 25, 2006)
"Can you get 256GB on an A4 sheet? No way!" By Chris Mellor, Techworld (published
November 24, 2006; accessed November 29, 2006)