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https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/03/1501449323996361392.gif?quality=75&w=800800363Video: Here’s a really good reason to start using CDs again: so you can erase them with electricity. Watch the data on the CD just totally vanish as the electric bolts just zaps everything into oblivion. Photonicinduction played around with it and shows us what it all looks like in the video below.