Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely of mechanical components that can perform simple computations without ...

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a kirigami-inspired mechanical computer that uses a complex structure of rigid, interconnected polymer cubes to store, retrieve and erase ...

Published in Nature Communications, researchers from St. Olaf College and Syracuse University built a computer made entirely ...

A steel bar pivots. A spring stretches. Then, with a small shove, the whole setup flips into a new state and stays there until the next push. “We typically think of memory as something in a computer ...

In a nutshell: In a world where computers keep getting smaller and more compact, researchers at North Carolina State University have gone in the opposite direction. They've created a mechanical ...

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As computers age, a dedicated few work towards keeping some of the more interesting ones running. This is often a losing battle of sorts, as the relentless march of time comes for us all, human and ...