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You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Not running the game's code on a biological computer (maybe that's next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step

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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 127 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Spoiler: it's "just" a display. Bacteria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The what now computer?

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're made using these crabs.

Also called "soldier crabs"

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[–] wikibot@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Mictyris guinotae is a species of soldier crab of genus Mictyris, endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. They were named after Danièle Guinot, a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in France, and were first treated as a separate species in a tribute volume to Guinot.

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