{"id":23658,"date":"2016-03-17T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/this-amazing-computer-chip-is-made-of-live-brain-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:46","slug":"this-amazing-computer-chip-is-made-of-live-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/this-amazing-computer-chip-is-made-of-live-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"This Amazing Computer Chip Is Made of Live Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-amazing-computer-chip-is-made-of-live-brain-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, researchers from Germany and Japan were able to simulate one percent of human brain activity for a single second. It took the processing power of one of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>Hands down, the human brain is by far the most powerful, energy efficient computer ever created.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what if we could harness the power of the human brain by using actual brain cells to power the next generation of computers? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As crazy as it sounds, that\u2019s exactly what neuroscientist Osh Agabi is building. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koniku.uk\/\">Koniku<\/a>, Agabi\u2019s startup, has developed a prototype 64-neuron silicon chip.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/03\/17\/this-amazing-computer-chip-is-made-of-live-brain-cells\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0bca33e4bf-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-0bca33e4bf-58021781\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/03\/17\/this-amazing-computer-c...f-58021781<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, researchers from Germany and Japan were able to simulate one percent of human brain activity for a single second. It took the processing power of one of the world\u2019s most powerful supercomputers to make that happen. Hands down, the human brain is by far the most powerful, energy efficient computer ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67974,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23658\/revisions\/67974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}