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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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      09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the magic number.
    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. 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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  3. Oh No! by Mr_Tulip · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 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...

  5. 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.

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

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