Droplet Computer: Professor Manu Prakash, from India, has developed a computer that generates energy from a few water drops or water droplets at Stanford University in California. He got this idea while studying in college.
In his work, he incorporated elements of computer science, including a clock and a water droplet machine. He called it by the name Droplet Computer.
This droplet computer can perform all the functions of an electronic computer. For this Droplet computer, Professor keeps iron rods like a maze over the glass. Then he added another glass over it.
After that, he filled the oil between the two glasses, which had air in them. Then he filled some water droplets with a few particles of the magnet through a straw.
After this whole process, he kept it in the magnetic area, which is formed by the specification of copper. Every time, the magnetic field helps change the direction of the iron rods, allowing the moving drops to move faster. The professor has assigned the availability of water as 1 and the unavailability as 0.
Thus, he created a computer clock that displays the sequence of 1s and 0s. This clock works on water droplets, and that’s why this Droplet computer also works on water drops.
Video info: Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and his students have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets. Their goal is to design a new class of machines that can precisely control and manipulate physical matter.
Journal Reference
- Katsikis, G., Cybulski, J. & Prakash, M. Synchronous universal droplet logic and control. Nature Physics 11, 588–596 (2015). DOI: 10.1038/nphys3341
