I’m very much a technology buff. I tend to be an early adopter of many new and promising products and services. It never ceases to amaze me how fast technology moves.

I have a friend who regularly travels to Japan. I’ve been waiting for her to pick me up an unrestricted DVD-RAM that can also play regular DVDs. (Because of US import restrictions forced into place by organizations that think they control content, they aren’t easily available in the USA, but they are available at every shop in Akihabara. Welcome to the global economy.)

Now I may have to hold off. This article in Byte talks about a new gadget, called FMD-ROM has the potential to store as much as a terabyte (1000 gigabytes) on a piece of cheap removable media. Let’s see, that would hold every bit of non-motion media content that I own, all of my databases for work, and probably make a pretty good dent in my video collection. Oh yeah, and it would hold a copy or two of every MP3 that ever passed through Napster. Hmmm.