Axon Memory Device 2007

Axon Technologies have produced a new memory technology that is based on electrochemical deposition of metal, similar in principle to the electrochemical experiments conducted by Gordon Pask. The device on show consists of a microscope viewing an Axon demonstrator slide, a much larger version of their nanoionic memory system.
The slide consists of a number of circular silver electrodes deposited on an electrochemical substrate. The control panel enables a positive or negative potential to be applied to the central wire electrode between the two circular electrodes. When the memory switch is set to remember/grow, by pressing the left or right button (or both) buttons) a dendrite can be made to grow and make a connection indicated by the LED. Setting the memory switch to forget/decay the dendrite can be made to recede and break the connection. This demonstrates at a larger and much slower scale the principle employed in Axons memory device, which operates on the nanoscale where connections can be made or broken in nanoseconds rather than minutes.

Axon Memory Device from mimetics on Vimeo.