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Someday our bodies could ‘talk’ to gadgets

via gigaom.com Your body and your smartphone–or any other electronic device–don’t speak the same language. One uses electrons, the other protons to send information. But scientists at the University of Washington are working on ways to help the two understand each other through a new type of transistor. And this week they’ve announced a breakthrough transistor that uses materials derived from–wait for it–crab shells and squid parts.