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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. Re:Nothing can stop Nazi Pope by zeropointburn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good to know you're on the job, Pope Palpatine. Now quit posting AC so we know who to bash in return.

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    -1 raving lunatic; +6 subGenius... Things even out...
  2. Re:Nothing can stop Nazi Pope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If crushing jews and homosexuals are signs of nazism, wouldn't your average everyday islamist be as nazi as the most radical firebrand Hitlerjugend you ever could find during the second world war?

  3. 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?