Linked by David Adams on Fri 9th May 2008 21:44 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems Today's NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday radio program discussed the recent Memristor advances for the non-Electrical Engineer: "The possibility of such a circuit element, known as the "memristor," was first described in 1971, but no one was able to find a device with the properties of that missing element. Now, a group of scientists at HP Labs has found that in nanoscale materials, the "memristance" property becomes easier to see. The finding could lead to lower power, instant-on computers, as well as novel types of circuitry. HP Senior Fellow Stanley Williams, one of the discoverers of the modern memristor, talks about the find and its potential applications." The 13 minute program is available online
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RE: doubt
by modmans2ndcoming on Sun 11th May 2008 12:52 UTC in reply to "doubt"
modmans2ndcoming
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I believe they said that this effect occurs all the time in natural world but the effect is so small that it is nearly undetectable with today's equipment unless you run it down to the nano scale.

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