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Comments on: MIT and TI to produce low energy chips

Universal Soldiers 

Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 16:24 GMT

Presumably DARPA is trying to avoid the problem of overheating that affected the prototype so-called "Universal Soldiers", as vividly shown in that excellent '90s documentary of the same name

but..... 

Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 16:48 GMT

wont low voltage chipsets be more upset by an emp.............

"It saves lives." 

Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 16:55 GMT

Says Army boffin. Depends on which side, obviously.

Body Heat 

Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 20:12 GMT

Stop

Powered by body heat?

If I get sick and run a fever, could that produce an over-voltage situation and blow out the chip?

Funny thing, bias. 

Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 21:16 GMT

Unhappy

The US newspaper I first read this article in didn't even mention military applications, and you spend most of the article on that and almost none on the medical and environmental possibilities. Putting the two together _almost_ gives a reasonable picture of the potential effect of this technology.

@Scott 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 10:15 GMT

"...could that produce an over-voltage situation and blow out the chip?"

Preventing overvoltage to reach the chip is a trivial affair consisting of about a dozen off-the-shelf electronics components. Alternatively, if you just want to prevent toasting the chip without ensuring it keeps running, say "fuse."

Powered by body heat 

Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 11:19 GMT

Go

Does this mean I can eat more and still lose weight?

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