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Water Logic Gates Built at MIT

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the flood-gates-opened dept.

ndogg writes "This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has created a water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to create a four bit adder."

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  1. Give new meaning by TodMinuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gives a whole new meaning to the term "wetware".

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    1. Re:Give new meaning by sokoban · · Score: 5, Funny

      Also gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "series of tubes".

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    2. Re:Give new meaning by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      If they throw a little carbon tracer dye in the water they would end up with a "black adder".

      KFG

  2. And then.... by ArcherB · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This story is all wet. Paulo Blikstein at MIT has created a water computer. The one boolean logic gate he created functions as a half-adder (i.e. both XOR and AND). He then proceeded to create a four bit adder."

    And then he proceeded to plug it in and electrocuted himself...

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  3. Beowulf Cluster by Inmatarian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great idea... the ultimate water park. The path down the massive water slide would be controlled by the very calculations going on. People could be used as math symbols!

    1. Re:Beowulf Cluster by jacobw · · Score: 5, Funny

      Water park? You are thinking too small, sir! This needs to be built as a continent-wide series of lakes and canals. For the first time, software pirates will be able to actually sail pirate ships on the job.

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  4. Oh No! by Mr_Tulip · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get the mop, I've just had and arithmetic overflow error!

    1. Re:Oh No! by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 4, Funny

      Put the bit bucket under it!

  5. Re:Hurm . . . by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Richard Gere already has claim to that patent.

  6. Was talking to a friend about this a few days ago by straponego · · Score: 4, Funny

    We were joking around, and I mentioned starting a Linux on Plumbing project. I should have known somebody at MIT would actually be working on it...

  7. Issues... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    With all the heat surrounding this announcement, I wonder how long it will take for it to become vaporware...

  8. It's not a tank by swordfishBob · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a series of tubes!

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  9. Obvious security flaws by dotoole · · Score: 5, Funny

    This guy obviously didn't think this through. Any script kiddie with a garden hose could create buffer overflows at will.

  10. Re:this is very old news... by darkfish32 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, something tells me this isn't going to be the next Watergate....

  11. You can run fluidics with a variety of OSes! by patio11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mac OS X -- Your computer needs water which is dyed a special shade of plastic white, is only available from one manufacturer, and costs about double what water usually costs. On the plus side, you chuckle every time you see the iFlow ads.

    Gentoo -- You spend all of your day running submerge.

    Windows 95 -- Your water has frozen. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot.

    Windows 98 -- Your water got some virii in it while you were searching for water sports. I swear, they should put a warning label around the English language some days. You now need to buy some chlorine from one of the numerous providers who specialize in cleaning up Microsoft's messes.

    Windows XP SP2 -- Your water suddenly looks a whole lot like plastic Fisher Price toy, but with your newfound determination to never, ever again search for watersports your system is actually pretty secure. Slashdot still makes fun of you, but they're all wet.

    Windows Vista -- It looks like you're trying to NAND 0 and 1 together. Do you want to permit this action?

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    1. Re:You can run fluidics with a variety of OSes! by BetterThanCaesar · · Score: 4, Funny

      I vote for Mac OS X - Because the processor already communicates fluently with the Aqua interface.

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  12. Floating Point Unit??? by advocate_one · · Score: 4, Funny

    does it have one?

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