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New Transistor Technology

Dean

Scientists have designed a radically new transistor that's much smaller, much more reliable, uses much less power, and is much less subject to interference than any current design.

Pretty soon it's going to start looking like magic.

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Sigivald (mail):

Let's not jump the gun, here.

They've developed a new <I>theoretical</i> design. They don't have a prototype yet, so it's difficult to say it <I>will</i> work.

It might work, as the theory suggests. Or there might be some flaw that hasn't (or cannot, given our current knowledge) been predicted, which will keep it from working soon... or perhaps ever.

Here's hoping it works, but let's not just assume it will.

8.18.2006 2:25pm

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Arnold Harris (mail):

At last. The age of Dick Tracy 2-way wrist radios is upon us in real life and not just in a 50-year-old comic strip.

Or is even that old hat already?

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

8.18.2006 2:31pm

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jaymaster (mail):

Arnold,

$60 a pair on Amazon.

Wrist Radios

8.18.2006 2:56pm

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Dean Esmay:

No jumping the gun here. Anyone who's paid attention to what's been happening in quantum computing the last few years knows that we're beyond the theoretical stage and into the engineering challenge phase.

8.18.2006 3:34pm

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PFC_Koopmans (mail):

Wrist radios? It seems to me we're fast approaching the Next Generation Star Trek style communication technology; tap a badge on your chest and say who you want to call...

8.18.2006 4:38pm

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Phelps (www):

Already got the Star Trek communicators.

8.18.2006 6:10pm

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Bob Hawkins:

For some reason, all this effort to make transistors even smaller, faster etc. reminds me of pasta. If ads on cable TV are any indication, tremendous effort is going into making it even easier to cook pasta. Since cooking pasta consists of "dump hot water on it," it seems the effort would be better aimed at something that's not already easy.

Similarly, wouldn't it make more sense if all this effort were going into, say, making Windows less of a piece of [deleted], rather than making transistors more submicroscopic?

8.19.2006 9:00pm