**DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab** @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology · 11 jan. 2018, 03:49

**DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab** @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology · 11 jan. 2018, 03:49

DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

any moment now somebody is due to come along and wonder if we couldn't do with a radical redesign of the transistor

**amphetamine (formal aspect)** @amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net · 11 jan. 2018, 03:50

**amphetamine (formal aspect)** @amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net · 11 jan. 2018, 03:50

@vertigo @djsundog yea those ones where the mean free path for electrons is longer than the distance so it's basically a vacuum even though it's just full of helium?

**Ed S** @EdS@mastodon.sdf.org · 11 jan. 2018, 05:39

**Ed S** @EdS@mastodon.sdf.org · 11 jan. 2018, 05:39

One word: Fluidics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics#Triodes

We don't need transistors, triodes, or even relays. Just water, the stuff of life.

@LogicalDash @vertigo @amphetamine @djsundog

**Soni L.** @SoniEx2 · 2018-01-11T14:03:02Z

Soni L. @SoniEx2

@vertigo @djsundog @amphetamine @LogicalDash @EdS If all the 300W of electricity in computers went into sound instead of heat, they'd easily deafen us too.

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