A computer constructed from a consortium of live crabs
Posted by admin in Science on 18. Apr, 2012 | 0 Comments
If biomimicry is the instance of technology emulating nature, then this must be something like the opposite: researchers at Kobe University have built a computer out of crabs. Placed within a geometrically constrained environment, swarms of soldier crabs can be effectively used to emulate logic gates. In other words, researchers have replicated the fundamental workings [...]
Cloud-based quantum computing will allow secure calculation on encrypted bits
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 20. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
When quantum computers eventually reach larger scales, they’ll probably remain pretty precious resources, locked away in research institutions just like our classical supercomputers. So anyone who wants to perform quantum calculations will likely have to do it in the cloud, remotely accessing a quantum server somewhere else. A new double-blind cryptography method would ensure that [...]
40-inch multitouch desk set for CES debut
Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 25. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
Could multi-touch desks be the wave of the future? ExoPC thinks so, and has posted a video of its new 40-inch multitouch desk on YouTube – a desk it plans on officially announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of January. The teaser video (below) doesn’t offer a ton of information about [...]
Japanese supercomputer unseats chinese supercomputer, is now the world’s fastest
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 21. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
A Japanese supercomputer is now the world’s fastest, unseating the previous record-holder by nearly a factor of four. The K Computer, based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, can perform 8 petaflops — that’s 8 quadrillion calculations per second. The next-best computer is China’s Tianhe-1A , which set a record [...]
Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
Posted by admin in Hi-tech on 16. Apr, 2011 | 0 Comments
This is a Teleportation Device The setup Noriyuki Lee and colleagues used to teleport quantum light In a real-life use of Schrödinger’s theoretical paradoxical cat, researchers report that they were able to quickly transfer a complex set of quantum information while preserving its integrity. The information, in the form of light, was manipulated in such [...]
