Gel-Based Memory Could Be Used to Interface With Cells

In the future computers could have Jello based memory drives. Researchers have developed a new memory device with a "gelatinous consistency." Just don't let Bill Cosby near your Jello flash drive or he will "erase" all your data.
Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a new sort of memory device that has a gelatinous consistency and an ability to work in wet environments that give it potential bio-electric applications. There are a couple of pretty revolutionary qualities that differentiate this from your garden-variety memory device. First of all, the gel uses a liquid alloy (gallium and indium) set in the water-based gel for it’s wires instead of, well, wires. This way, the gel can work in wet environments without shorting and is also remarkably flexible. This liquid alloy also transmits data in a non-standard way. Typically, electronics use electrons (go figure) for their binary communications. The gel memory however, uses ions. Basically, the alloy can switch between being resistive and conductive by being exposed to positive and negative charges respectively, which gives you your two values

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While I understand the reasoning, it's not advised to drive with one hand on the stick áll the time. Only when actually shifting.
Even more so, it's not necessary all the time either. On a highway you have to shift to the highest gear, keep both hands on the wheel and both eyes on the road.

Where I'm from, driving stick is taught as a standard.
If drivers don't show to be sensible in the way that you simple "can't" do anything else with your hands but driving when driving, they shouldn't be in the first place. This goes for all ages.
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Many moons ago, when I learned to drive, if you took your test on an automatic you had a restriction put on your license. And people who could only drive an automatic were scoffed at.
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Where I live, driving stick is typical, and that's what I drive. Shifting gears is only demanding for so long; after a while, your brain gets trained enough that it's part of driving, just like everything else. While a nuisance when you need a free hand, there are solutions around, even while driving through busy city traffic (where you need to fiddle with the stick a lot more than on longer trips, as Barking_Bud correctly pointed out above).

Having said all of the above, I totally recommend a teenager's first car should be manual transmission. Having to switch gears manually really helps you get an intimate feeling for how things work inside the engine, when you can expect power and when you shouldn't, and generally how to take advantage of a car's engine.
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Er, take it from someone who lives in the UK (where stick shift is the norm) this would NOT do anything to stop teenagers being teenagers. Best one I saw here was an idiot rolling a cigarette while steering with his elbows! The real answer is to make teenagers drive little electric 2 person bumper cars until they are 28 (when their brains suddenly get into gear).
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My kids want to learn to drive a stick shift. But our manual truck died, and a decent affordable used car with a stick shift is very hard to find these days. In all honesty, I'd rather have a 30-40 year old car anyway because you can repair them at home. Too bad those are considered "antique."
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I hope this push for manual does take off. In addition to reducing texting while driving, it might also introduce more people to how enjoyable it is to actually operate a vehicle, to enjoy driving rather than just seeing it as a way to get from Point A to Point B.
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