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Ice Cream Robot From Japan is the Future of Awesome

Japan gets a lot of grief for the sometimes oddball shit they come up with, like Cucumber Pepsi, for example. But all of our laughing and taunting is really just hiding the one thing we all know to be true…Japan is completely f’ing rad. If you disagree, it’s only because you’ve never seen the Yaskawa-kun Ice Cream Robot.

…Robbins employee without all of that unwanted interaction with other human beings. What could be better? You get to continue on that path that will likely end with you succumbing to complications from a clogged artery at the age of 38 and never once do you have to endure the judgmental glare of some high school dickhead ice cream shop employee who thinks you’re some kind of slob just because their state sanctioned lunch of nachos and gummi bears hasn’t caught up to their hormone infused metabolism yet.
Once you’re finished powering your way through that entirely too long sentence we closed the last paragraph with, check out the Yaskawa-kun Ice Cream Robot, below. We love you, Japan….

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New Data Density World Record: 4 Trillion Bits / Inch²

Scientists at Tohoku University in Japan have recorded data at a density of 4 trillion bits per square inch, which is a world record for the experimental ‘ferroelectric’ data storage method.

…The data-recording device scans a tiny cantilever tip that rides in contact with the surface of a ferroelectric material. To write data, an electric pulse is sent through the tip, changing the electric polarization and nonlinear dielectric constant of a tiny circular spot in the substrate beneath. To read data, the same tip detects the variations in nonlinear dielectric constant in the altered regions.
“We expect this ferroelectric data storage system to be a candidate to succeed magnetic hard disk drives or flash memory, at least in applications for which extremely high data density and small physical volume is required,” said Dr. Yasuo Cho.
In earlier experiments, the researchers had noticed one problem: When the data being written required that several consecutive marks be written next to each other, the written polarized regions expanded the normal diameter and coalesced to the point the bits were not distinct. Cho and Kenkou Tanaka then developed a method for anticipating strings of consecutive marks…

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