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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. One practical application: by kestasjk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be a very good teaching aid. Even those people in my Hardware Fundamentals course who just "didn't get it" would be able to see clearly what's going on.

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    // MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
  2. Re:this is very old news... by Brandybuck · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This isn't decades old. The device being reported on, that is. The concept is old, but the implementation is new. Despite your feeble protestations, it's still cool.

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    Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!