The next Computer Might Have Bloody Resistors

In the search for the next radically improved computer memory, the blood is the latest contender. Sanguineous thoughts aside, a team of researchers from Gujarat, India made a “memristor” out of human blood.

Compare to most resistors, the memristor remembers previous levels of voltage, enabling a repeat of a certain flow. It was in 2008 when HP created the first functioning memristor. However, it was plasma-deficient, and it was a situation that the Education Campus Changa team could not follow.

But why use the human blood?

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