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MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This is interesting in a "how far can you launch a pumpkin using an air canon" way, not a "you only need to cool this down to -40C to make it super conduct" way. It's a fun experiment with nearly zero practical purpose outside of some very niche edge cases. Wearable computing is probably the only realistic one at the moment for a CPU that you can stretch a little and runs incredibly slow.

[โ€“] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Wearable computing is a huge market if you can literally embed this into clothing.

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