In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have built a flexible and ultra-fast artificial synapse printed entirely from room-temperature liquid inks that dissolves on demand in six minutes. The work shows that high-performance and brain-inspired hardware does not require extreme vacuum chambers, rare metals, or permanent electronic waste.
  • axh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    Chips that compute “at lightning speed” that’s literally ANY electronics

  • Venator@lemmy.nzEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I don’t get why you’d want a computer to be dissolvable or bendable…

    Sure it doesn’t seem like that would matter, but they seem to be trying to spin it as some sort of advantage?

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      FTA:

      The immediate application lies in bendable medical patches and short-term wearable monitors that process health data directly on the body and dissolve when no longer needed.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I mean, I can think of uses. They are extremely niche, such as a low-impact self-destructable rubber ducky, or a use case where you don’t want waste left around. But yeah I can’t think of many.

  • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Our brain runs an astonishingly powerful supercomputer on roughly the same electrical power as a dim 20-watt refrigerator bulb

    Oh yeah? How much power is that? Is it roughly the same electrical power as a slow 20-watt phone charger?

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Not to mention a 20 watt bulb would be blindingly bright unless it’s an incandescent bulb or something. It uses the same power as a useless 20-watt toaster, or a punchy 20-watt desk speaker, or a compact 20-watt fan: about 20 watts.