Our brain does not work like a typical computer memory storing just ones and zeroes: thanks to a much larger variation in memory states,it can calculate faster consuming less energy. Scientists of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology of the University of Twente (The Netherlands) now developed a ferro-electric fabric with a memory function resembling synapses and neurons in the brain, resulting in a multistate memory. They publish their results in this week's Advanced Functional Materials.
Source: phys.org