When watching most science fiction movies, you probably can’t help thinking about how glad you are to live in such a simple, non-apocalyptic world. The only problem is, our world isn’t really that simple anymore. The fact is, it’s closer to science fiction than you think. Believe it or not, proof of this can be seen in the lengths that scientists have gone in discovering new and more efficient ways of making flash memory drives.

Just a decade ago, the best option that we had for easy on-the-go storage was a bulky and relatively fragile 3.5” hard disk drive. With IBM introducing the first commercial USB flash drives in 2000, the world quickly realized the amazing benefits of flash memory and as interest rose, so did the technology. Flash drives rose quickly from a mere 64 MB all the way to the 64 GB drives of today. Read the rest of this entry »