While this biological computer itself has been around about a year, this article from National Geographic states that Israeli scientists have now made the DNA-based computer able to provide its own fuel, which was recognized last week by Guinness World Records as the "smallest biological computing device." Some of its advantages include its small size and its fast speed (at over 330 trillion operations per second, over 100,000 times faster than current PCs), though its memory is currently very limited.

You can read the published abstract from the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, though you need a subscription to view the whole article.


I think the most interesting part of the DNA computer is that it can produce "billions of potential answers simultaneously," making it "suitable for solving 'fuzzy logic' problems that have many possible solutions rather than [following] the either/or logic of binary computers." This would seem to satisfy a Deleuzian/Guittarian notion of a 'rhizomatic computer.'