A few Wi-Fi transmitters and your house becomes a coprocessor

(credit: University of Washington)

In computing, we have pretty much come to accept the idea that smaller is better. The smaller the features on a chip, the more transistors we can place, the more computation can be done.

I'm pretty excited to present the opposite. Researchers are proposing an idea to make your computer bigger. They are suggesting an extreme and awesome form of co-processing. They want to turn your entire house into a co-processor" using the local Wi-Fi signal.

Don't laugh, because the whole idea is awesome, innovative, fun, and has some interesting science in it. Overly excited Chris says it may even turn out to be practical (sensible Chris says it won't).

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