The prospect of iPods that can hold millions of songs and PCs being able to turn on instantly, rather than taking minutes to "boot up", comes much closer today.
Within the next decade, racetrack memory, so named because the data "races" around microscopic magnetic "tracks," could lead to solid state electronic devices with no moving parts, and therefore more durable - capable of holding far more data.
IBM says this technology could enable a handheld device such as an mp3 player to store around 500,000 songs or around 3,500 movies - 100 times more than is possible today.
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