Chips that compute "at lightning speed" that's literally ANY electronics
Send in the cleanup squad, they know too much
Our brain runs an astonishingly powerful supercomputer on roughly the same electrical power as a dim 20-watt refrigerator bulb
Oh yeah? How much power is that? Is it roughly the same electrical power as a slow 20-watt phone charger?
Not to mention a 20 watt bulb would be blindingly bright unless it's an incandescent bulb or something. It uses the same power as a useless 20-watt toaster, or a punchy 20-watt desk speaker, or a compact 20-watt fan: about 20 watts.
I don't get why you'd want a computer to be dissolvable or bendable...
Sure it doesn't seem like that would matter, but they seem to be trying to spin it as some sort of advantage?
FTA:
The immediate application lies in bendable medical patches and short-term wearable monitors that process health data directly on the body and dissolve when no longer needed.
Sounds sinister to me.
There could be medical applications
I mean, I can think of uses. They are extremely niche, such as a low-impact self-destructable rubber ducky, or a use case where you don’t want waste left around. But yeah I can’t think of many.
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