Speaker 0:  we spent decades shrinking silicon chips to power our screens, but an engineer just built a fully functional matrix display using nothing but air, vacuum tubes, and silicone. this breakthrough in fluid logic proves you don't need a single drop of electricity engineers are creating pneumatic displays and control systems relying entirely on microfluid logistic logic gates and diy vacuum transistors. by routing air pressure through layered silicone channels, these systems calculate and physically actuate pixels without any electronic components in the matrix. what's going on here, john?

Speaker 1:  i think this is pretty cool. so there's this youtuber and maker. his nickname is soy boy soft, i think. so he built soft, a small soft display that's made out of silicon and air pressure instead of electronics. so each pixel, it's basically a little silicon membrane over a tiny cell that moves inward when air is sucked out, creating a bump or depression that can spell out text or simple images. so the system is powered by vacuum pumps and valves rather than electricity and leds. it's actually pretty cool to watch. i don't know if you watched the video, so it's cool because instead of relying on actual electrical pixels like lcds and oleds, the system's using pneumatic actuation to move the silicon membrane. so, when a vacuum line removes the air breath of membrane, it pulls the membrane into depression, which creates a visible change. when the vacuum is released, the membrane releases mhmm. and springs back flat, so effectively creating an off state. so i like, although the project is functional, the charm comes like, if you actually watch the video, it's kind of an asmr sensory kind of video, because you've got these sounds and sensory experience of watching it. so if you guys get a chance, go watch the video. but you've got the combination of hissing air, clicking valves, and membrane motion. it produces this satisfying audio effect. so not only is it cool technology that's kind of using basic, technology to create something cool, there's also this sensory effect too to it. there we go. yeah. what do you think about this, craig?

Speaker 0:  we're playing the video. yeah. we're just not playing the audio. so we're the audio. why. yeah. that's just because it's better not to because it will get probably copyright struck for something. this lays a groundwork for indestructible soft touch wearables, tactile interfaces that can operate safely in extreme environments where traditional electronics would instantly short circuit. i like to think of this like an update to us, like a city's plumbing system masquerading as a computer processor instead of electric switches flipping on and off, to light up a bulb. imagine microscopic network of pipes where a drop in air pressure physically sucks a tiny silicon bulb inward to create a pixel. if you open a valve, on both the row and the column pipe simultaneously, bam, the intersection gets sucked in acting exactly like a mass microscopic and in your smartphone. yeah. so i think this is really cool. i don't think, we'll have to see, like, actually what kind of really cool things people will develop with that. we saw the led displays that it can do, but that's just the beginning. right?

Speaker 1:  yeah. yeah. this is cool. i'm excited to see where the next steps goes with this and what other people, do with this. this is really cool.

Speaker 0:  yeah. let me just see if i can jump to a spot where you can see it displaying anything.

Speaker 1:  there we go. that's it working in real life. yep. so

Speaker 0:  the fluid logic was heavily researched by the military and aerospace, industries in nineteen sixties because the mechanical air logic gates are entirely immune to electric magnetic puzzle pulses and extreme radiation. so this will be interesting to see if what this, makes their way to and what new interactive type devices we can use with this, technology. i'm really interesting to see whether soft robotics and micro fluids prove that logic is a universal language turning simple silicon and air into tactile display of the future. would you trust a wearable health monitor run entirely entirely by microscopic air tubes instead of a battery and a microchip? let us know in the chat.