Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
Project Silica encodes multi-bit voxels in glass using laser-induced birefringence or refractive-index changes, read via phase-contrast microscopy for dense, long-term optical storage.
MIT scientists move structural color beyond the lab
A handheld laser system called MorphoChrome paints programmable iridescent structural colors onto holographic photopolymer film for integration into flexible and rigid objects.