If you happen to love gadgets and if plenty of them are lying around like they are in my case, then you will find this very useful. I thought that my modern gadgets would make sure that there is a steep increase in my power bill, but to my surprise that is not the case and has not been ever since I bought them. That is a bit of a credit to those who made them, but if the makers of nanotechnology were to be given a chance then that bill would go down a lot further.
Researchers from NTT in Japan may have found a way to accomplish that. Through the use of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) nanotechnology, these researchers created a semiconductor composed of tiny oscillating plates which can perform computations at just a tiny fraction of power the most energy-efficient devices use today. And by fraction, it is around 0.001 percent of the energy today’s devices consume. It is impressive to know that people are thinking of making low energy consumption that is beyond super conductivity.
Using the MEMS nanotechnology, a single data point requires only one ten-thousandth (10 Pico watts) of the current usual power consumption. To be able to create a competitive device though, say, a computer, several of the MEMS semiconductors would be needed. That is still a long way to go from the present state and maybe will take several years if not a decade or two to hit the stores. So it will have to be put on shelf for now.
