Human Ear is a Super Radio with 3500 Channels
It’s pretty amazing that simply looking outside our own fabricated restrictions can yield something so seemingly innovative. The article also has a video interview with this professor.
The chip is faster than any human-designed radio-frequency spectrum analyzer and also operates at much lower power.
“The cochlea quickly gets the big picture of what’s going on in the sound spectrum,” said Sarpeshkar. “The more I started to look at the ear, the more I realized it%u2019s like a super radio with 3,500 parallel channels.”
Via @mocost.
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