In 1997 IBM harnessed the effect to produce an ultrasensitive disk drive that could pack 2.7 gigabytes of data into a square inch.

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Other ideas include building a detector to see if the spin of an atomic nucleus can be measured, or using the technique as an ultrasensitive antenna.

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Then Mandel works his magic: Using an ultrasensitive digital camera attached to the back of a telescope and wired into a computer, he starts to pull images down from the heavens.

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