The team is already thinking of applications for metamaterials as read-heads for future generations of hard-disk drives or optical modulators for communications.

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Magnetic heads read data from spinning platters.

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Spintronic PCs are at least a decade off, but the technology has been in use for several years in the magnetic heads that read and write data to hard drives.

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The turmoil has driven investors to reassess their portfolios, and while many are still scratching their heads, Chan still sees further gains in 2011. (Read Oil Prices Close To Peak As High Prices Destroy Demand).

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Or maybe it's part and parcel of a deliberately creative ambiguity fostered by both London and Dublin in which the spectator is invited to read whatever he or she wants into a President and a Queen standing, heads bowed, before the undeniably impressive Children of Lir statue at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance.

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