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Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor

Posted by samzenpus on from the it-does-go-well-with-the-fish dept.

angry tapir writes "In a new twist on strange brew, an Intel engineer has showed off a project using wine to power a microprocessor. The engineer poured red wine into a glass containing circuitry on two metal boards during a keynote by Genevieve Bell, Intel fellow, at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. Once the red wine hit the metal, the microprocessor on a circuit board powered up. The low-power microprocessor then ran a graphics program on a computer with an e-ink display."

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  1. Too stupid for words. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I can't hear this nonsense any more. The processor is not powered by "wine": any old ionic solution will do. What is powering the processor here (or the rather common novelty LCD clock "powered by an Apple" used instead) is the use of two different electrodes. The less noble electrode is getting dissolved, and that's what's powering the circuitry.