Thursday, October 05, 2006

Making Computer Memory From a Virus

By coating 30-nanometre-long chunks of tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles, it’s possible to create a transistor with very fast switching speed. Millions of these transistors could eventually be used in a memory chip to replace flash memory in mp3 players and digital cameras, for example....Read more here

2 comments:

Ambivertsdiary said...

"you have a virus in memory"

"i know, my memory is made of viruses"

"no, i mean, there is a memory resident virus on your computer"

"no, the memory resides on the viruses"

"let me rephrase: your memory, made of viruses, has a virus"

"so you're telling me i have more viruses... so i have more memory? yeah!"

"no, this is a bad thing, you don't want viruses on your computer"

"you told me last week i want the most memory i can on my computer, and that's made of viruses"

"yes... i mean no, i mean..." (smacks forehead)

Anonymous said...

Reading these kind of posts reminds me of just how technology truly is an integral part of our lives in this day and age, and I can say with 99% certainty that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.


I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as memory gets less expensive, the possibility of transferring our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.


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