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Your Brain Uses 10 Watts

DateFriday, January 23, 2009 at 11:11PM


TEDster Kwabena Boahen Explains how the Blue Gene supercomputer is approaching the processing power of the human brain. It's a different type of computation of course.

Of interest, according to Kwabena, Blue Gene takes the power of 1,200 households. Your brain uses 10 watts. An as a result, your brain uses about the same amount of power as laptop computer but has the power of a supercomputer.
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