nano-technology

A new microcomputer has been created by researchers at the University of Michigan. The millimeter-scale computing system can store up to a week volume of data and can reside on something as small as a human eye. The computer, called the Phoenix chip, is just over one cubic millimeter in size and was designed to monitor eye pressure in glaucoma patients.

"This is the first true millimeter-scale complete computing system," Dennis Sylvester, a professor at the school and one of the researchers on the project, said in a statement.