The results were just out hours ago. The Nobel Prize for Physics 2007 goes to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance.
The first thought that hit me was: "what the hell is giant magnetoresistance?"
Ah well, according to the Great Storehouse of Knowledge, Wikipedia, it is the mechanisms behind our hard disks. Okay, not the entire hard disk... just that needle head that reads the data.
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