Professor Manu Prakash at the university's Bioengineering Department and his team have been working on the idea for almost a decade.
The computer resembles a microchip, the size of a postage stamp, but researchers claim that it is enough to prove their idea. Prakash surprised the world last year when he created a paper microscope that folds like Origami, known as the Foldscope.
In the microchip, with circuitry pattern similar to a Pac-Man maze, the researchers trapped tiny water drops infused with magnetic nanoparticles. When they placed rotating magnets underneath the circuit, the droplets moved in a synchronized way, resembling binary code, the language used in computing.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
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