Interview with Scratch-Less Disc inventor Todd Kuchman
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By now you have likely heard of the ’scratchless disc’. Now, how would you like to hear from the man who brought it to light?
Modern compact discs are remarkable storage devices, but because data on these discs are just as optical as scratches are, serious scratches can invalidate tracks or entire discs. Last month, we introduced you to the Scratch-Less disc, which claims to resist scratches through a combination of bumps, ridges, and a hard coating.
Now, Scratch-Less inventor Todd Kuchman tells us that the seemingly simple design was actually quite difficult to perfect. Kuchman spent more than four years in his garage cutting, drilling, and gluing, in order to come up with an impervious disc that also wouldn’t become stuck in a CD-ROM drive. [Read the rest]