H2O/IP

AltImage writes "This interesting project uses water as an organic network between two computers. It analyzes the color of each pixel and 'prints' out pulses to the electronically controlled water valve - a different pulse pattern depending on the color of the pixel on screen."

Interesting as technology

[Kajakske]

This seems interesting as a technology on itself. Like for scientific purposes.

But as a Real Life application ?
Why would we need such new and complicated technologies if the current ones just work fine ?
I agree, new technologies might be faster and/ord better in the future, so it's defenetly worth looking into it some more.

this is just art

[hfastedge]

I dont mean this as an insult. And its very good art, but observe:

The core technology behind StreamingMedia is a new network protocol I'm developing for water transmission called H20/IP. H20/IP functions in a similar way as TCP/IP but focuses on the inherent viscous properties of water that are not present in traditional packet networks. These properties include fluidity, heat index, tri-state properties, density difference depending on state, and surface tension. Based on the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Model, H20/IP exists as a physical layer consisting of custom-designed hardware throughputs, a network layer used to decode incoming and outgoing messages, a transport layer between messages and communication interfaces, and an application layer that allows for connecting infinite input and output mechanisms. Depending on the design of the StreamingMedia network, the data layer can dynamically adjust to each change while maintaining the integrity of the network.

This simply uses water as the medium instead of: fiber, wire, or air. Most likely, I would conclude that solid water is just too dynamic of a material to get anything useful out of it. For example, this display uses water drops, which are huge compared to electrons. Now, using electricity over water would be a little more interesting, but then it REALLY just becomes another medium for fiber wires. And if you want to get really creative, you can say that since there is so much matter in one drop of water, you can automagically make use of this inherent fact to send more data...then I say bah....because you can inherently make use of the quantum properties of electrons to get more out of them, and this is where we are REALLY going towards.

Thanks for contributing to the entropy of this planet you artist!

So: Just art...but good art. Well done!

Based on an old idea (Cryptonomicon)

[FyRE666]

This is reminiscent of an idea used in the "first computer" developed in the book Cryptonomicon [cryptonomicon.com]. The RAM is a series of tubes holding mercury, which store values based upon waves introduced into the tubes which closed electical circuits (if I remember rightly). It'd be cool to see one actually working ;-)

IP/H20

[chrisseaton]

That should be IP/H2O as in this case IP is running over the H2O technology, as with TCP/IP where TCP runs over IP.

Re:Water isn't organic..

[Black Perl]

and it is ip/h2o, not h2o/ip...

Well, it should be H2O-232 because it's more like a serial protocol. It's not bidirectional, so no handshaking is possible.