32GB SDHC cards too small for you? How about 2TB? That's what the SDXC memory card format is designed to deliver.

Announced today at CES, the XC - for 'eXtended Capacity', but what's wrong with EC? - the format also ups read and write speeds to 104MB/s. The SD Association - the organisation that oversees the SD card standard - said it's looking to up the data-transfer rate to 300MB/s.

OK, this is just a format, and I'm sure that Le Système International d'Unités would be quick to point out that they're likely talking about tebibites, which is still, as they say in my country, a metric assload.

(I was going to say fuckton, but decided that was inappropriate.)

While I'm glad to see that the spec has been improved, I can't help but wonder if by the time that the technology develops to this point that it won't already be an out-of-date standard; I mean, the idea is cool, but have you seen the state of rocket cars lately?