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A metal staple pins two pages of a report together in the traditional manner.
Inside the staple, the molecular structure at the domain level is arranged in such a manner as to provide base two information storage, allowing for a minimal amount of data to be encoded in the staple itself.
Domains
http://www.ndt-ed.o...ossary/letter/d.htm
[normzone, May 19 2006]
The inspiration
Encode_20Data_20in_...Rings_20of_20Saturn
Ok, that and the engineer that refused to attach any data to his Engineering Change Order. [normzone, May 19 2006]
OK, here's one possible means of reading the data
http://staff.washin...chudler/magtur.html
I considered pigeons, but maintaining a saltwater environment for the read head made the idea so much richer [normzone, May 19 2006]
And if a turtle is impractical -
http://hyperphysics...e/solids/squid.html
We could use a SQUID [normzone, May 19 2006]
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And how would you recover the stored information? |
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I'm thinking you'd do better simply to print a bar code on the top of the staple. |
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Funny you should ask. I was just trying to figure that out myself. I've used magnetic field detectors to locate welds that had been ground and polished to where they were visually indetectable, but they were gross analog instruments. |
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An extremely precise means of detecting magnetic fields would be required. |
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