
Just what we need, technology that means we'll have to inspect our own drink for NSA surveillance devices. I say starve the little buggers, bottoms up lads!
Day three of the Intel Developer Forum is usually when the firm shows off its future projects and Chipzilla's in-house anthropologist Dr Genevieve Bell took to the keynote stage to demonstrate a processor powered by wine and mobile phones that use your gait or voice as a password. Bell, who thanks to her Australian outback …
From my stint in the Army, the problem would be, "My voice is my ..." BLAAAARGH!!! "Oh, hey, does this run on piss?" "I was on the shitter and I don't know where my phone went!"
And did anybody notice that the wine bottle was down more than one glass worth?
What could possible go wrong, do you think ?
Well I suppose there's the off chance that you might transform into a fly and the voice recognition software wouldn't recognise you. You know, like in that thing ... "Metamorphosis".
(OK, I deliberately got the film name wrong)
The whole publicity splaff was so full of fail it contained little else! Perhaps they were trying to channel tartaric or, possibly malic, or even, as it's red wine they used, tannic ... but no, certainly not ethanoic which would have you spitting "vinegar!" if the conc. ws >~0.2%
But... it ain't the acid anyway... this whole fruit/veg/booze myth has irked me since school days and "potato powered clocks. It's not the bloody spud powering your clock, you moron, it's the corrosion of your electrodes. The electrodes are the bloody fuel and the "free" power you're wowed by was invested in their smelting. Once you've corroded them away you have to refuel with a fresh set. Shir it's an electrochemical redox thing and you need the spud too but saying "wine/spud powered clock/chip" is as stoopid as claiming to drive an air powered car. Doesn't anyone know how a simple cell/battery works... potential generated by the difference in electrochemical potential of two different metals and current generated as a result of the change of oxidation states of those metals across an electrolyte when a circuit is made? FFS kids pay attention at the back!
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