Strive Notes

Remember those first mobile phones back in the 80s? How cool we all thought we were walking around with handsets the size of bricks, only heavier. I love the tiny little mobile that I have now - it fits in the palm of my hand.

Whenever I have to run between Terminal 2 and Terminal 1 at Gatwick lugging my laptop, I find myself wishing for a similar innovation for my computer. And it seems my dream may soon come true.

Engineers from the University of Edinburgh are working to make tiny supercomputers which fit in the palm of the hand a reality. And they have recently had a major scientific breakthrough. They examined the behaviour of wires 1,000 times thinner than a human hair and came up with some ground-breaking findings. Click here to read the rest of this Isle of Man Examiner Tech Talk column.

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