Flux Capacitor fabricated at HP

Posted by jeff on May 5th, 2008

The latest buzz is that a fourth fundamental circuit element has been fabricated. Dubbed the Memristor, it's a two-terminal device that acts like a resistor with a time-varying magnetic flux derivative with a memory effect. When you charge it up, you change the flux. That's right, a flux capacitor, and some others agree. The actual function is a characteristic of how much charge your flux capacitor can handle.

So now the only questions is, how are you going to use your flux capacitor? The inventor of memristors suggests building large artificial neural networks. Any ideas for what we should call those?