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Making Computer Memory From a Virus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-the-speed-of-sick dept.

An Ac writes, "By coating 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a transistor with very fast switching speed. They say it could eventually be used to make memory chips for MP3 players and digital cameras. A device fitted with such a virus-chip would access data much more quickly than one using flash memory."

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  1. All this 'biocomputing'... by Wizard052 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...reminds me of an article I read a while ago of some researchers somewhere who had been able to connect a small chip to a cockroach! They were even able to manipulate the cockroach to an extent- move it's legs..etc passing some commands to the chip-effectively rendering the cockroach to become a robot...that was just amazing. Does anyone know of this? I'd love to know more details on this and how it turned out eventually... ..anyone with links to this?