Jalaj P. Jha Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

90GB to 450GB of data on A4 paper?

Did you hear about the revolutionary technology for storing hundreds of Gigabytes of data on a A4 size paper? It started with an article on arabnews.com highlighting Sainul Abideen's claim that Rainbow Versatile Disk conceived by him can store from 90GB to 450GB of data. It has turned out to be an hoax after Chris Mellor's reasoning over the matter Can you get 256GB on an A4 sheet? No way! and Store 256GB on an A4 sheet.

Sainul now puts back on his home page

There are some rumors spreading around the world about my work, Rainbow Storage. “We can store 100s of GBs of data in a sheet of ordinary paper” is a great misunderstanding...

The page stated above exist on http://www.kerlontech.com/ which seems to the Software Company that Sainul is trying to Setup. While he is saying that people misunderstood his word, there are still pages which insist on his statement that RVD can be used to store 400GB of data. Things change on the net very fast and this site may too... I am placing all page contents here as of now for future reference.

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One of our products which will be releasing to the market soon will be a cutting edge technology; the rainbow storage

Rainbow storage:

Eying towards the future portable storage, rainbow storage technology provides cheap and mass storage without any heavy hardware requirements.

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The products can be with the following features:

Medium Independent

Disposable Storage

Rainbow Versatile Disk (RVD)

The technology could be further enhanced extending the life of storage producing special disks named RVD’s. This disks can store up to 400 Giga bites of data.

Rainbow Data centre

The futuristic aspect of Kerlontech’s technology is it could be effectively used for making data centres. A data centre aims to store mass volumes of data and effectively services a request for a data using a high end server. The large storage capacity and the fast retrieval mechanisms available in the rainbow technology makes it an idle choice for data centre applications. According to statistical data, there is a minute need of cost and space for handling the enormous amount of data in the world when rainbow storage and the current day technologies compared.

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There are some rumors spreading around the world about my work, Rainbow Storage. “We can store 100s of GBs of data in a sheet of ordinary paper” is a great misunderstanding and I do believe that it is impossible with existing technologies. Many technical groups are discussing about this and they are wasting their valuable time. I think they are mixing my two statements.

1) We can store data even on an ordinary paper

2) We can achieve huge density by using rainbow storage

I used an ordinary sheet of paper to demonstrate this work, I think that’s why the misunderstanding.

Actually Rainbow Storage is not a method to store data on paper but it is a group of techniques to represent data in the form of colour, colour groups and some symbols. We can use any colour representable media as storage medium including paper and plastic sheets. Paper and ink is not the only way to represent colour, there are other efficient methods available now and many kind of researches are going on in different parts of the world .

Definitely, Ordinary sheet of paper with normal printer and scanner will give poor density, but it can be used for some specific purposes. (Acid paper with special ink can last to decades and fading problem can be solved considerably by using some techniques in Rainbow Storage). It put forward the concept of disposable storage. We can create many useful products like digital catalogue for commercial products.

I prepared Rainbow Storage as my academic seminar paper and it was a study to explore data representation capability of colors. Most of the living organisms are getting huge amount of data through vision. Our eyes can only understand colours and colours only. But our brain is doing many complex operations (like distance calculation of objects by using images from two eyes) by using this colors. We can identify distance of two objects (which one is closer) in different environments (eg : Brightness difference). So the visible light (colors) contains a huge amount of data.

Instead of using 0s and 1s here we are using color dots. Each color dot can represent minimum 8 bits (1 byte). If we are using some powerfull mode of representation (forget about ink and paper) we can represent more data on a single spot. By using some groups and symbols , we can also increase the density in to some extent.

Please mail me your suggestions and queries to rainbowsainu@yahoo.com. Kindly give me time to reply because 100s of mails and enquiries are getting daily. So I am unable to reply them all.

If anyone interested in my projects and interested to work with me (Both technical and financial), please mail me to sainuworks@yahoo.com

In Rainbow Storage, we are converting digital data (any format) into somo clors, color combinations, and some symbols known as rainbow format. Hence a rainbow Picture will be generated. The picture will be highly compressed ( Not in magical ) and it can be represented in any color representable medium. We can use the medium as a secondary storage device. The density will be according to the medium, read and write methods using. For retrieving the contents from the medium, readers capture picture and generate data from the color combinations. Although environmental light differences and colour shading is a problem, it can be overcomes up to a certain limit by using efficient mapping functions. Each rainbow picture contains a header, body, footer, parity, Rainbow boundary mapper etc. Header contains the measurement of the rainbow picture. the algorithm (not basic) which is being used etc. It also contains an efficiently designed error checking mechanism.

By using Rainboe Storage, we can develop many kind of products. It Includes

1) Disposable storage

2) RVD

3) Rainbow cards

4) Datacenters

Rainbow storage can be used to achieve Disposable storage. We can store any kind of data in any kind of color representable media. It can be used as one time storage. We can use bio degradable materials here (because it is not intented for long time). These category of products can be used for Distribution of files, documents, etc. Here we can use even printers, scanners, cameras etc as input and output devices. I am planning to release two useful products in this category by the middle of 2008.

RVD (Rainbow Versatile Disk) is another product that can be developed by using Rainbow Storage. We need to develop specific drives for reading and writing. It can hold huge amount of data and it will be very cheap enough to reduce storage price dramatically. The technique Vertical lining is used in RVD to ensure high density. Storage capacity will vary according to the nature of mediums used.

Rainbow cards can be constructed as a cheap secondary storage medium for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) and other small digital devices. It can be constructed in many standards and sizes. The size can be vary from visiting card size to size of a SIM card. Specific readers need to be attached with such devices.

Datacenters are the static storage servers that can hold Peta Bytes of data. It will be a sequential access storage system that can be used for secondary storage of data. We can construct a datacentre with cost around 35 lakhs.

My new project is named as Project Xpressa. It is a software/Embudded package for regional languages. By using this, news papers, stories, novels etc can be made audible in its own style. An importance of this is that the newspapers and novels and other stuffs which are available in the Internet can be enjoyed through a mobile phone. This project is designed in such a way that any person who has a GPRS connection (internet access) on his mobile phone can enjoy stuffs which are available in the Internet.

Myself, I had just finished my MCA (Mastar of Computer Application) from MES Engineering college, Kuttippuram , Kerala, India. I am a native of Karingappara, near by Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, Kerala, India. Now working with some projects and trying to setup a software company.

With warm regards,

Sainu

mysainu@yahoo.com

09895081493 (+91)

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