Six-state memristor opens door to weird computing [News]

The newest fundamental electronic component, the memristor, still holds some surprises, it seems. Since researchers built the first memristor six years ago, this mysterious device has promised a host of applications—denser nonvolatile memories, new universal logic gates, and brainlike computers, among other things. Add to these another, according to Trinity College Dublin physicists: base-10 memory.