SCIENCE - Don't call it vaporware: Scientists use cloud of atoms as optical memory device

Talk about storing data in the cloud. Scientists have taken this to a whole new level by demonstrating that they can store visual images within quite an ethereal memory device -- a thin vapor of rubidium atoms. The effort may prove helpful in creating memory for quantum computers.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130404092829.ht