Scientists Create Self-Healing Electronics

[tuanmai]

New technology allows broken circuits to heal themselves.

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[jdenova007]

Wish my original xbox 360 had these little critters in there! Goodbye RROD

 

[fandroid]

Liquid metal... T1000

 

[Xatos]

Skynet online.

 

[Netherscourge]

The inner layer is made of adamantium...

 

[Guest]

matter of seconds? this guy says microseconds....fix ur facts!

 

[lahawzel]

So... how many times does this work?

 

[rubix_1011]

How do you control how far or to what extent the 'liquid' disperses? At some point, you don't want it creating shorts by contacting adjacent circuitry. Cool idea, but a lot of questions to be addressed with this concept.

 

[cronik93]

 

[cronik93]

The prophecy is coming true!

December 21, 2012 will be judgment day!

 

[830hobbes]

[citation][nom]Netherscourge[/nom]The inner layer is made of adamantium...[/citation]

Actually, adamantium never breaks so this research is pointless. That is, assuming adamantium is highly conductive.

 

[memadmax]

Nice, now all we need is robots made by robots, a few hundred nuclear bombs to go off, some dirty kids in a bombed out city, oh and some beer.... =D

 

[ben850]

I would hate to piss off that guy

 

[LORD_ORION]

In what began as a conflict over the transference of consciousness to machine, escalated into a war that devastated a million worlds.

 

[lp231]

Umm... you guys are a bit late. A year late to be exact.
http/www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16291943

 

[spiketheaardvark]

I'd gladly serve an A.I. overlord if I'd never have a short in my headphones again.

 

[dark_knight33]

Seems like this wouldn't work in more delicate circuits, such as those inside a CPU or GPU. The different material used to fill the cap would create resistance/inductance changes that fundamentally alter the circuit. This would have worked better for something like 80's electronics that didn't have such tight specifications.

 

[ChiefTexas_82]

I would love self-healing hard drives. I really hate it then those things break.

 

[Guest]

its the dark gundam!!

 

[gokanis]

I have a bad feeling about this....