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Hp Unveils Devices Built Using Memristors: Skynet, Here We Come

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Nearly 40 years ago, Filipino-American scientist Leon O. Chua came up with the idea of a memory resistor, or memristor for short. Yesterday, April 8, Hewlett-Packard showed devices that the company made using memristors in place of transistors. Memristors have a lot of advantages over transistors, the primary one being…

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April 9th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Light Up Business Card Gives Contact Details, Physics and Chemistry Lessons

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Aaron Alai made sure that prospective employers – and lovers – will remember him. They’ll remember him as the nerd with the business card that lights up.

Touching two points on the card activates the small LED on the lower right of the card. The unusual schematic is deliberate; it’s…

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March 18th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

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