Yes, that’s right. Tera-fying. That’s for all you people who say that Get IT Here doesn’t do puns. You know who you are.

I remember when CD-ROMs first came out and someone told me they could carry 500MB of data. It sounded insane to me – who could use that much data? Then the CD version of Monkey Island came out, and we all had a good laugh.

From the nation that brought us karaoke, Final Fantasy games and ninjas, a research team has worked out a cheap alternative to current DVD technology that could store 25 terabytes of data. That’s more than it sounds, so you might want to click here and put it in perspective. No one can dispute that we are now that much closer to storing Christopher Walken’s brain on DVD.