It's good they're making robot vampires.
Posted on 03/30/2011 2:14:49 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
Human Blood Simplifies Cyborg Circuitry
Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces?...
Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such as a robotic limb or artificial eye might one day be possible thanks to the development of biological components.
Writing in the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, a team in India describes how a "memristor" can be made using human blood. Memristors were a theoretical electronic component first suggested in 1971 by Berkeley electrical engineer Leon Chua and finally developed in the laboratory by scientists at Hewlett Packard using titanium dioxide in 2008.
A memristor is a passive device, like a resistor, with two terminals but rather than having a fixed electrical resistance, its ability to carry a current changes, depending on the voltage applied previously; it retains a memory of the current, in other words.
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Well, Jehovah’s Witnesses will be out of luck.
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Hunh. I actually remember a friend in college remarking how he had seen one of the first touch-screen displays at an engineering fair... /quaint memory.
anyway, it's all in the interface. If it was "plastics" in the 70s, it's "the interface" now.
Paging the Kurzweil guy.
It's good they're making robot vampires.
bump for later (or should I say:) I’ll be back.
Freddy “ Boom Boom” Cannon
Someone please post a Summer Glau pic.
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