{"id":87315,"date":"2019-02-01T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T00:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-worlds-smallest-computer-is-so-tiny-that-it-makes-a-grain-of-rice-look-gigantic"},"modified":"2019-02-01T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T00:23:17","slug":"the-worlds-smallest-computer-is-so-tiny-that-it-makes-a-grain-of-rice-look-gigantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-worlds-smallest-computer-is-so-tiny-that-it-makes-a-grain-of-rice-look-gigantic","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s smallest computer is so tiny that it makes a grain of rice look gigantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-smallest-computer-is-so-tiny-that-it-makes-a-grain-of-rice-look-gigantic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/u-m-researchers-create-worlds-smallest-computer\/ > University of Michigan has come up with a temperature sensing \u201ccomputer\u201d measuring just 0.3mm \u2014<\/a> so small it beats the one developed by IBM.<\/p>\n<p>It is about a tenth the size of <a href=https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2018\/3\/19\/17140116\/ibm-worlds-smallest-computer-grain-of-salt-solar-powered > IBM\u2019s former record-setter<\/a>, and so sensitive that its transmission LED could instigate currents in its circuits.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201ccomputer\u201d is used loosely by the university, as it continues to question what exactly a computer is. It does have a processor, but unlike a full-sized computer, it loses all data when it loses power.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/worlds-smallest-computer-is-so-tiny-it-makes-a-rice-grain-look-huge-2018-6\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/worlds-smallest-computer-is-...2018&#45;6<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Michigan has come up with a temperature sensing \u201ccomputer\u201d measuring just 0.3mm \u2014 so small it beats the one developed by IBM. It is about a tenth the size of IBM\u2019s former record-setter, and so sensitive that its transmission LED could instigate currents in its circuits. The term \u201ccomputer\u201d is used loosely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87315","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}