Advent Of Rainbow Storage

From the time of Michael Angelo and Da Vinci when paintings were

regarded to be a symbol of aesthetics circa to the modern time when paintings

will assume a new dimension, thanks to 'Rainbow Technology,' a unique

technique developed by an MCA student from Kerala, Sainul Abideen whereby data

can also be stored on ordinary paper.

This low cost technology would considerably reduce the cost of

storage at the same time providing high-speed storage as well. Files in any

format such as movie files, songs, images and text can be stored using this

technology.

"Rainbow Storage is a group of techniques to store digital

data in some colors, color combinations and some symbols known as rainbow

format, and therefore a rainbow picture will be generated," Abideen said.

The technique is used to achieve high-density storage.

Abideen added that instead of using 0s and 1s, we use color dots

where each color dot can represent minimum 8 bits (1 byte). The rainbow picture

will be highly compressed and can be represented in any color medium. For

retrieving the contents from the medium, picture can be captured and data can be

generated from the color combinations. "Although environmental light

differences and color shading is a problem, it can overcome upto a certain limit

by using efficient mapping functions" Abideen added.

Abideen is simultaneously molding the technology into

"Rainbow Cards" which will be of SIM card size and store 5 GB data.

The technology can be used to achieve disposable storage as we

can use bio-degradable materials.

Abideen is also working on Project Xpressa, a software/ embedded

package for regional languages. By using this, newspapers, stories, novels, etc.

can be made audible even on mobile phones with a GPRS connection.

So the next time you see a painting, look carefully it might be

some critical data stored using Rainbow Technology.