That's the trick performed by holographic disk drives, which record a series of 1-million-bit chunks of data as holographic "pages" inside a light-sensitive plastic medium.

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One modest dwelling on the edge of Koreatown has as many Roman statues in the garden as a medium-sized Italian city, if plastic ones count.

ECONOMIST: Visual blight

The microcapsules can be suspended in a carrier medium, so that they can be screen-printed on to surfaces including glass, plastic, fabric and even paper.

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