A decade in the making, but they’ve finally cracked it. You might not naturally pair computers with water—at least not in a positive way—but researchers at Stanford University have managed to create a computer that works using water droplets.
Normally, your computer transfers data around a circuit board using electrons. But scientists have managed to turn this on its head by making a computer in which the presence or absence of a water drop represents the ‘1’ or ‘0’ of binary code. The new computer is able to perform all the same processes of a normal computer, albeit much slower. However, the real advantage of this new tech is that those little water droplets could carry chemicals, making the computer a complex delivery system.
via IFL Science
