Protein disk

The October issue of MaximumPC (one of my favorite geeky mags) has an article about protein-based optical disc recording, which amazingly (I am not making this up) is projected to provide up to 50 terabytes of storage per disc. The Harvard (I am not making that up either) research stipulates a thin coating of light-activated proteins over a substrate. For me, it conjures up images of stuffing a burger into your disc tray...