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Geek Culture / Penny-Sized Computers?

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 9th Jun 2005 22:11 Edited at: 9th Jun 2005 22:24
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This is pretty cool:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,67769,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

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Eric T
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Posted: 9th Jun 2005 22:16
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I prefer my computers big and loud... <insert compensation joke here>

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Ummm... isn't avoiding a ban against the AUP or something?

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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 9th Jun 2005 22:18 Edited at: 9th Jun 2005 22:24
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Im not avoiding it....just changed the name once it was over. Stick to computers eh?

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 9th Jun 2005 23:49
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i dont wanna be playing first person shooters with a magnifying glass...
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Ace Of Spades
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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 00:03
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Well, its small computer...not monitor. I think its more for research stuff rather than personal right now anyway.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 03:18
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n conventional microchips today, DiLabio said, many thousands or even millions of electrons are needed to turn the transistor's valve on and off. "But in this case we have the ultimate efficiency," he added. "A single electron."

faster speed, less power usage probably, less heat
but what i wonder is how protected it can be
i mean if u hold it with something besides tweezers very gently will they break

and how the crap will u put a monitor, keyboard or any pephreable on it

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David R
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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 03:27
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Molceular sized transistors means smaller.... everyhting!

Smaller sceens, speakers.... etc.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 03:30
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pephreable


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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 03:53
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Well it's nice to see they're finally making machines for the borrowers.

I don't see the point in making a computer that small, but a new frabication process of Transistors is good. As it means they can move forward with processing technology again.

Currently the problem is the fabrication, and heat. So with current method a plateu has been hit that they're cheating to get past. Be interesting to see how technology like that is integrated in the future.

This said does it hold a candle to Intel's Quantum Processor research?

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 03:57
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Quote: "and how the crap will u put a monitor, keyboard or any pephreable on it"


probably wont need to, you'll probably be putting the pc in a small postage stamp sized slot in your monitor or something, the same way you put games into a console, and then plug your keyboard and everythign else into your monitor too
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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 04:10
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If you kept everything the size it is now, you could cram in more technically? Therefore gaining crap like speed and efficiency

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 04:12
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I'd rather see them release the paper computers they've promised us so many years ago. *THOSE* were cool.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/paper.html


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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 05:23
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when i was young i was being told by the time i started driving i'd be taken lessons in an electric car...
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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 06:12
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As always the technology will get the blame for the subversive uses it will be put to. Computers that size could be put to all manner of covert nasty use by almost anyone.

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Quote: "when i was young i was being told by the time i started driving i'd be taken lessons in an electric car..."


To be fair, it's not like there aren't electric cars.
It's more a case of they never took off; though i'd love to know the reasons behind why.

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Quote: " when i was young i was being told by the time i started driving i'd be taken lessons in an electric car..."


he he, I thought I would be driving floating cars lol, Saying that I was only 4 :p

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 07:08
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geecee, you seen those mini robots, disguised as ants, have miniture microphone and cameras on board to secretly watch discussions etc...

there was this story on naked news about this man who was having a piss when he noticed a bug on a lightbulb, and when he tried to swat it, it made a ping instead of a splat... the rest you can guess...
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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 15:18
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yea think of the possibilities of this really though
u could get like 16 cpus now that is what i call multithreading technology

i wonder what thye will do for practical cooling though i bet they will use some sorta liquid nitrogen system that is actually practical

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 15:22
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Quote: "I don't see the point in making a computer that small"

Neither do I, what if you like lose it or ur dog ate it. Sad part is I'm serious lol. Lord only knows what would happen if you lost a $1000 postage size computer all the time.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 15:23
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Imagine toting your UltraSuperCoolLeetMegaUperDuberNeato Alienware around on a wrist strap? That's why we do things like this.

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Posted: 10th Jun 2005 20:00
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If the transistors take a single electron to turn on. Wouldn't it make the computer incredibly vulnerable to static or stuff like electomagnetic induction from changes in nearby magnetic field - which there is a fair bit of in a lot of homes/offices. One bit of static charge could completely mess up the state of every transistor in the computer if its that sensitive as just a single electro could mess it up!

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Posted: 11th Jun 2005 01:45 Edited at: 11th Jun 2005 01:45
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nah it wouldn't. charges on ion's can be far more powerful than near by magnetic charges, it be just the same with a normal pc. the worse thing i'd imagine is rubbing a balloon against your jump and this pc come and flies at ye.. but its only 2cm^2 so no need to panic
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It means you can fit Huge amounts more of transistors on motherboards and processors etc the actual computers dont need to get smaller guys this is component of computers not one itself!!!

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Posted: 11th Jun 2005 09:00
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This is even better, right in the middle: http://www.vrealities.com/poma.html

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Posted: 14th Jun 2005 01:19
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Or instead of one fast small computer you could make a computer as big as the ones today and have it be almost too fast too see hehehe

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Posted: 14th Jun 2005 01:27
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Quote: "It means you can fit Huge amounts more of transistors on motherboards and processors etc the actual computers dont need to get smaller guys this is component of computers not one itself!!!"

Quote: "Or instead of one fast small computer you could make a computer as big as the ones today and have it be almost too fast too see hehehe"

and other quotes similar...

I said that a while back, the smaller technology allows far more processing speed to be reached with less cost (heat/money/space-wise) and lots of better crap....not making smaller computers (that will be one advantage, but not the main one)

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Teh Go0rfmeister
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Posted: 14th Jun 2005 02:24
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you can like... make CPU fans out of the CPU itself :/
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