Mechanical memory written and read remotely – Nature.com

Digital memory systems are an integral part of computers for example, hard drives are used to write and read data that are stored magnetically. Writing in Nature, Chen et al.1 report a device in which mechanically encoded information can be written, stored permanently and retrieved at will. Moreover, the encoded information determines the mechanical properties of the device. Just as hard drives revolutionized computer systems, devices such as this could open the door to the next generation of soft…

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