Fark linked up this New Scientist article that describes a new innovation in beer brewing. By creating super-fine filters using technology originally created for DAT*, beer can be filtered much more quickly and efficiently. It worked so well in prototype that the researchers started up their own brewery!

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* Digital audio tape. It was a technology created in the late 80s to bring CD-quality sound to the recording world. Unfortunately the recording industry sued, sued, and sued again, screaming that unfettered pirating would bring about apocalypse (to recording executives at least). The tech died for audio, but lived a very long life in the data world, where the tapes and their drives were used as backup technology.