The Omnissiah sees fit that I may become one with the machine in this lifetime.
Organic semiconductors have been delusions of science fiction novels and films for decades. The dream of being able to merge your mind with a CPU or to have the iron grip of Robocop has been one of mine for as log as I can remember. That dream is a step closer to reality.
Researchers from IMEC have created a cheap (potentially 1/10th the cost of silicon chips), bendable microprocessor by layering a plastic substrate, gold circuits, organic dielectric, and a pentacene organic semiconductor to create an 8-bit logic circuit with 4000 transistors. Executing just 6 instructions per second, these things won't allow you to download a bootleg copy of Transformers straight to your cerebellum, but the chips should prove useful in creating cheaper flexible displays and sensors to tell us whether or not that road rash on your forearm really is infected.
The simple possibilities are now endless.
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