Looking for a hard drive for my Macbook I came across this very entertaining flash-animation where the technology of perpendicular storage is explained.
For those of you who are lost already, perpendicular storage is a new way of storing data on a hard disk. In the quest for more storage on the same surface there were some physics boundaries that could not be crossed. Does that explain it a bit? Probably not .
Just see the movie "Get Perpendicular" for yourself.
And did you like it? I think it's pure edutainment. You learn something and it's entertaining at the same time, great! Hetty my girlfriend -she is a computer user and user only- watched it and she loved it. She even asked me to send the link to her work-email address.
So credits to the people who actually made this happen. They didn't go for the boring technical page only but also squeezed in this fun part.
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