Technology: Researchers develop computer processor made from chicken feathers Copyright © 2002 AP Online NEWARK, Del. (July 24, 2002 3:52 p.m. EDT) - Everyone's familiar with the computer mouse. But the computer chicken? Researchers in the University of Delaware's ACRES program - Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources - have developed a computer processor made from chicken feathers. The head of the program, chemical engineering professor Richard Wool, said researchers looked to chicken feathers because they have shafts that are hollow but strong, and made mostly of air, a great conductor of electricity. The chicken-feather chip is made from soybean...