I knew about 20 years ago that someone was going to make a computer that worked with fiber optics or light. Looks like IBM did it. And it should have been my first guess now that I think about it.

IBM Researchers Create Device Which Uses Light for Communication Between Computer Chips

IBM scientists unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using pulses of light. As reported in the recent issue of the scientific journal Nature, this is an important advancement in changing the way computer chips talk to each other.

The device, called a nanophotonic avalanche photodetector, is the fastest of its kind and could enable breakthroughs in energy-efficient computing that can have significant implications for the future of electronics.

The IBM device explores the avalanche effect in Germanium, a material currently used in production of microprocessor chips. Analogous to a snow avalanche on a steep mountain slope, an incoming light pulse initially frees just a few charge carriers which in turn free others until the original signal is amplified many times. Conventional avalanche photodetectors are not able to detect fast optical signals because the avalanche builds slowly.

The avalanche photodetector demonstrated by IBM is the worlds fastest device of its kind. It can receive optical information signals at 40Gbps (billion bits per second) and simultaneously multiply them tenfold. Moreover, the device operates with just a 1.5V voltage supply, 20 times smaller than previous demonstrations. Thus many of these tiny communication devices could potentially be powered by just a small AA-size battery, while traditional avalanche photodetectors require 20-30V power supplies.

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Yep, it does that… And no, you don’t have to keep buying a zillion apps for that.

Alan Tam from Adobe Flash Product Marketing walks us through Adobe Flash and Adobe Air functionalities on HP’s upcoming slate device. Learn how you can access the full web, and not just a part of it. Questions or thoughts? Leave them in the comment section below.

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Turn up the sound, I love the annouce messages that the computer puts out…. Target Lost…. LOL

Some people are super creative. SCARY Creative.

Don’t think that LOCKS are safe, they can be beat.

Fingerprints can be copied, and are not a sure sign of Identification if they can be faked, duplicated, or just plain erased.

Lucky this guy did it as a setup and also lucky he didn’t pick me for a demo.

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This is worth your time.

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Impressive!