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MIT and TI to produce low energy chips

Senor Beavis

Universal Soldiers 

Presumably DARPA is trying to avoid the problem of overheating that affected the prototype so-called "Universal Soldiers", as vividly shown in that excellent '90s documentary of the same name

leslie

but..... 

wont low voltage chipsets be more upset by an emp.............

Anonymous Coward

"It saves lives." 

Says Army boffin. Depends on which side, obviously.

Scott

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If I get sick and run a fever, could that produce an over-voltage situation and blow out the chip?

Steven Knox

Funny thing, bias. 

Unhappy

The US newspaper I first read this article in didn't even mention military applications, and you spend most of the article on that and almost none on the medical and environmental possibilities. Putting the two together _almost_ gives a reasonable picture of the potential effect of this technology.

stizzleswick

@Scott 

"...could that produce an over-voltage situation and blow out the chip?"

Preventing overvoltage to reach the chip is a trivial affair consisting of about a dozen off-the-shelf electronics components. Alternatively, if you just want to prevent toasting the chip without ensuring it keeps running, say "fuse."

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Does this mean I can eat more and still lose weight?