Instead of storing similar items next to each other — televisions with other electronics, shampoo with other personal care items — randomness abounds.
The rise of wireless devices will drive this trend too: instead of storing data internally, such devices will store information on the network and access it when needed.
Instead of storing your handwriting internally, the receiver-clip thing passes it along to a Palm organizer, a Pocket PC or a laptop (which explains why, conveniently enough, the top of the pen has an inkless stylus for palmtop use).
Instead of storing packets of tablets, pharmacists will have reels of filaments of the base product (our prescribed drug) and will customise the dose and shape of tablet to our individual needs.
Mr. Engdahl, from the Hollywood archiving and postproduction company, proposed to his customers that they switch to his firm's digital archiving service instead of storing their shows on tape.
As the sale of music in physical form declines, the major record companies are bracing for a future in which digital sales will be the majority, perhaps linked to new technologies like tablet computers or cloud computing, in which users would access their digital collections via the Internet "cloud" instead of storing files on their own machines.
On Monday, at the opening of its annual developers conference in San Francisco, the company is expected to unveil an Internet radio service that will stream songs over a data connection instead of storing them on a device, according to people briefed on the negotiations.
Tankless water heaters heat and distribute water instantaneously instead of storing it hot.
Instead of storing the images in the robot's memory, we propose a compact signature to be extracted from the images.
Furthermore, every node stores a point in the span-space, instead of storing the points only in the leaves.
And users can save their projects to their hard drives instead of storing the file in the cloud.
