An anonymous reader writes to mention that New Scientist has a quick round-up of what they think about to be the ten weirdest types of computers. The list includes everything from quantum personal, to slime molds, to pails of water. “Perhaps the most unlikely place to see computing power is in the ripples in a tank of water. Using a ripple tank and an overhead camera, Chrisantha Fernando and Sampsa Sojakka at the University of Sussex, used wave patterns to make a type of logic gate called an “exclusive OR gate”, or XOR gate.”
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