Our technology has been developing at a rapid pace in recent decades, and new research suggests that we could soon be entering a new age of tech innovation with even more advancements thanks to mind-blowingly affordable plastic processors. So affordable in fact, that it’s estimated these processors could be mass-produced for less than a penny.…
Plastics found in electronic waste (e-waste) are rarely recycled due to their complex composition and hazardous additives, but scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new use for them — by repurposing them as an alternative to the plastics used in laboratory cell culture containers, such as petri dishes. The team…
Researchers with Arm and PragmatIC have developed the first true microprocessor that employs plastic – not silicon – as its base material. The 32-bit, PlasticArm microprocessor concept is based on the company’s M0 design and features some 18,000 logic gates, a processor, memory, controller, and inputs and outputs. The development, published in Nature, will allow…
The latest release from Razer, creator of some of the “most interesting” products ever to grace a desktop, is a partnership with ClearBot a marine waste cleaning enterprise with a prototype AI robot. The AI powered boat is designed to detect and collect some of the 11 million tons of plastics that are polluting our…