The Matrix is now a reality!

[Eliseos]

I'm not your baby, guy.

[Ganondorf]

Facebooking is about to get a fuckton better!

[MF Perm tha Fineass]

one step closer to sex robots, fuck yes

[Mizango]

Oh man, a robotic Kyle Orton. I can see it now, we'd hang out and tell stories about how easy getting into the HoF was and how it feels to be the first Panther inducted etc...

Spoiler: show

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...pjacklarge.jpg

[Drex]

So is this going to be the first step into computers that we get to link to our brains so we can get direct feeds of all the awesome and informative things that we look up while on the internet and watching t.v. and all that jazz? Because I don't want a plug in the back of my neck. I would just fuck with it until I accidentally rip it out. And I bet it would be expensive to fix.

im just in it for the porn, but that sounds kinda neat too i guess when i get wankers cramp

[Benevolentone]

This kind of technology may make our current attempts at A.I. something that is more than just a joke. So maybe, just maybe, they will make interactive porn that really simulates you fucking that really hot chick for all of 25 seconds that ends in you convulsing on top of her. And she will be programmed to like that kinda thing. Not just like it, but get off on it even. It will be great.

[Eliseos]

If anyone is interested, my electronics professor posted the original paper by Chua, and another one from 1968 that is apparently claiming to have already seen memristor type effects. If you want to read either paper, send me a PM.

[Deadgye]

It's such a shame that jobs in theoretical physics and mathematics are non existent, when pretty much every advancements we did over the last 500 years came from these 2 disciplines.

If you keep spraying, eventually you get a random headshot. It's easy to theorize something, but near impossible to make some things work practically. It's not the theoretical departments that make these advancements a reality, it's the engineering departments. Not saying one is better than the other; we still need both to function properly.

How does it works? I don't know anything memresistor, but I have trouble believing they arent also bound by some quantum mechanics bullshit eventually?

I have a feeling they operate in a completely different way. The whole being able to process and retain memory at the same time thing is what's making me think that, anyway. I really need to read up on these things as well. Seeing as I'm a computer engineering major I have a feeling I may be working with these in the future.

This is really cool Weren't we reaching the limits (or already had?) with what we currently have? So if this is the next step then I welcome it!

Yep, most manufacturers are making the move to 22nm nowish iirc, and around 18~nm is where transistors start fail.

[Cochise]

Silicon Shrinkwrap Melts Smoothly Onto Cat Brain to Monitor Activity in Real Time

First step prototype hardware for the physical brain to electronic brain transfer process invented.

The wetted silk can apply a thin silicon layer directly to the brain's contours, shrink-wrap style, and monitor brain activity.

http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecac...icles/mesh.jpg

Implanting clunky electrodes or other devices inside people's heads could someday give way to smoother, silkier neuromedicine. Scientists say that they have successfully measured the electrical activity of cat brains by using a silk-silicon surface mesh, according to Technology Review.
Silk films can easily be rolled up and slipped through a small hole made in the skull. When wetted with saline, the film helps the silicon circuits conform directly to the brain's surface and even slip inside crevices.

There are also no biocompatibility issues, because the silk eventually dissolves over time and leaves behind a network of silk circuits too thin to cause any harm. The group of researchers from institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana had previously shown how their silk-silicon stamp could avoid triggering an immune reaction.
Scientists hope that they can someday shrink-wrap the entire brain with a silky mesh and monitor brain activity for years on end. But first they must figure out how to add silicon transistors which can help amplify signals and actively respond to brain activity by applying electrical stimuli, or perhaps even releasing drugs.
Integrating the transistors may prove tricky because of the silk mesh structure, rather than just a silk sheet. But the same group has already shown how to wrap a flexible sensor array of nanomembrane transistors around the beating hearts of pigs. We'd place good money on seeing this happen a lot sooner than recreating a virtual feline mind, in any case.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...-activity-cats

[Zalius]

dibs on the robots

[GRT]

Silicon Shrinkwrap Melts Smoothly Onto Cat Brain to Monitor Activity in Real Time

First step prototype hardware for the physical brain to electronic brain transfer process invented.



http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...-activity-cats

Woah, so Neo's first incarnation was a cat?