TG Daily Hardware: World's first computer with biocircuitry is launched

**FEED** · 04-01-09, 12:06 AM

World's first computer with biocircuitry is launched

From the outside, the Turin XL looks like any other computer. Open it
up and look inside and you'll find a gelatinous gob of goo at the heart
of the motherboard, and organic tubes snaking their way around the
case. This is the world's first computer to use bio-manufactured
circuitry. It is also the first computer that can adapt to fight
malicious software or viruses using biochemical defenses.<img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/tgda...4/ec7BZAOxSCA" height="1" width="1"/>

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tgdai...3/ec7BZAOxSCA/

**DancingCorpse** · 04-01-09, 12:15 AM

FEED got the first April Fools joke credit here. I just opened the link and instantly knew it had to be an April fools joke since I had noticed it is after midnight :P

I wonder how many more April Fools jokes FEED will pull today :P

**draco7891** · 04-01-09, 12:15 AM

Wednesday, April 01, 2009 00:01

Yes, our illustrious feed spider has successfully pranked itself.

Draco

**PizzaSHARK!** · 04-01-09, 03:51 AM

Yeah, although that would just so badass if it weren't a joke.

Hmm...

Why would cyborgs be an advantage, anyway? The electrical/robotic components would be vulnerable to things like magnetism and electrical surges (EMP shockwave, go!), while the biological components would presumably be vulnerable to normal viruses, adverse conditions (heat, cold), and other sci-fi nastiness like a quantum virus that breaks the protein chains at the molecular level (fun way to die.)

So, coolness aside... how is being a cyborg an advantage at all versus being purely biological or purely mechanical?