Then there was the story about the similarity between the nervous system of a nematode worm and computer chips. We've also talked about a computer based on the swarming activities of soldier crabs, a slime mould that might be used to perform basic computing operations and replicating the swarm intelligence exhibited by ants to speed the verification process in complex SoCs.
Is the idea of wood based chips another idea to add to the list? Basically, the idea is that you use wood to create a substrate on which you can lay out circuits. Once the device is no longer required, it can biodegrade.
It's something that headline writers in the 'good old days' would have had a field day with and you can imagine them creating applications for wood based chips such as branch prediction, routing trunk calls and data loggers.
