RGB Water? (Idea)

[PandaOnTech]

imagine an rgb light the size of a large molecule. its own battery power, a light, and a tiny chip for control. you mix it with water, and the way you control it is the molecules pass through a special fitting in your watercooling loop that tells the chip what to do. every light molecule communicates with others in the tube its in to coordinate a lighting style. this can include effects like light arrows flowing in the direction of the water flow, rgb rainbow, or a color spectrum, breathing effect, strobe etc. since the lights are so small the battery lasts years. Would this be possible?

 

After writing this I realized if the molecules were to talk to eachother, they would probably be talking to other molecules in the wrong parts of the loop. To maybe prevent this, what if every fitting was like a checkpoint, and molecules that passed through could only talk to other molecules that pass through?

 

I know computer chips small enough to be on a molecular level are far out from now, but could they exist? and if they ever do exist could this rgb water thing happen?

[Guest]

I highly doubt this will happen anytime soon if ever. When they are able to do engineering on such a small scale RGB lights in water will not be a top priority. And when they are cheap enough for consumers then we'll probably have ditched computers as we know them for something else.

[Guest]

Huh? How? 

4 minutes ago, PandaOnTech said:

 

I know computer chips small enough to be on a molecular level are far out from now, but could they exist? 

 

[AI3X]

Well, I know that you can fit a RGB LED into a fitting, which makes the water change color. You could DIY one or wait and buy one from I think Thermaltake... There was an LTT CES 2016 video on it.

[AI3X]

1 minute ago, AI3X said:

Well, I know that you can fit a RGB LED into a fitting, which makes the water change color. You could DIY one or wait and buy one from I think Thermaltake... There was an LTT CES 2016 video on it.

 

 

[dizmo]

By the time that happens, why on earth would you have a computer the size of what we have now?
You wouldn't. Plain and simple.

[Bananasplit_00]

nope. just nope. the lighting effects would be in dissaray, the flow of the water would just mess up everything because water dosent just go straight, it swirls around the inside of the tube too

[spwath]

If its the size of a molecule, then what is it made up of?

[PandaOnTech]

5 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

nope. just nope. the lighting effects would be in dissaray, the flow of the water would just mess up everything because water dosent just go straight, it swirls around the inside of the tube too

thats why the tiny computer chips would communicate real time

[Gandek]

If it exists it can be RGB

[PandaOnTech]

5 hours ago, dizmo said:

By the time that happens, why on earth would you have a computer the size of what we have now?
You wouldn't. Plain and simple.

a computer chip this small wouldn't be full windows... it would be very very simple, like raspberry pi type simple. maybe more so. just a simple processor with wireless communication 

[PandaOnTech]

5 hours ago, AI3X said:

 

right but, with my idea you could have graphics on and in the water. you could do that with transparent monitors like what ibuypower has, but then you would need a lot of light. also you can't have graphics running through the water. imagine if you could have the water be clear, then sort of highlight swirls in the water with a certain color? HOW FREAKIN COOL WOULD THAT BE!!

[dizmo]

50 minutes ago, PandaOnTech said:

a computer chip this small wouldn't be full windows... it would be very very simple, like raspberry pi type simple. maybe more so. just a simple processor with wireless communication 

If it's that simple why haven't they done it yet?
Exactly.

[PandaOnTech]

32 minutes ago, dizmo said:

If it's that simple why haven't they done it yet?
Exactly.

i mean the chip would be simple, as in it would have simple functionality, but have customization and wireless connection... LIKE a Raspberry Pi. It's not simple with our current technology to make it that small but sometime in the future maybe

[Seamonster420]

Assuming this technology were even possible I forsee three problems

 

1) The added nanomachines would make the water extremely electrically conductive. Not exactly what you want in a water loop as I understand.

2) How would these things be powered? Radioactive decay? Not sure that's something you'd want sitting on your desk. Converting waste heat into electricity? Doubt you'd be able to get enough power out of it to produce a noticeable amount of light. Teeny tiny batteries? Can batteries even be scaled down to the atomic level?

3) How exactly would these things communicate with one another? Onboard wifi or bluetooth? What kind of processing power would be required to control trillions upon trillions of tiny RGB nanomachines and keep them all in sync?

EDIT: 4) The RGB lights would introduce another (likely significant) source of heat into the loop

 

A simpler solution might be some sort of iridescent or polarized molecule that changes color when exposed to different frequencies of non-visible light. With some of the breakthroughs in materials science these days I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually made possible at some point in the near future.

[PandaOnTech]

10 hours ago, Seamonster420 said:

A simpler solution might be some sort of iridescent or polarized molecule that changes color when exposed to different frequencies of non-visible light. With some of the breakthroughs in materials science these days I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually made possible at some point in the near future.

that would produce solid color though, right? All of your points are valid.

 

1. They would be coated in a waterproof material. Like the waterproof hard drive video Linus did.

2. Researchers are already looking to improve batteries by adding atom-sized tunnels. Quote: "Battery researchers seeking improved electrode materials have focused on ‘tunneled’ structures that make it easier for charge-carrying ions to move in and out of the electrode." So atomic-level batteries may not be super far off?

3. On-board wifi. And I don't doubt that much processing power would be needed. if the nano machines communicate with eachother and also communicate with a cpu, there wouldn't be much that a modern cpu couldn't handle. On top of that, by the time chips small enough for this exist, the cpus out then will handle it even easier. 

4. True. But rgb lights in a regular case now don't produce much heat. Regular RGB Lights for your case produce anywhere from 1-8w of heat. So on a molecular level, probably a lot less. Since theres a lot more lights however, It's probably reasonable to put a strip of RGB into a watercooling tube and call it about the same? *about* is a key word here.

 

Do you know how to convert Watts into Celsius? I don't.

[Ezio Auditore]

As for your checkpoint idea, there would have to be electricity involved to transfer information which would cause water to ionize causing corrosion.

And you can't use wireless transmitters as I don't believe such a small thing would be invented in even the coming decade.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Whatever you're smoking, I'd like some

[keenhydra]

@HydraGaming I like your name...

[DarthSmartt]

20 hours ago, PandaOnTech said:

imagine an rgb light the size of a large molecule. its own battery power, a light, and a tiny chip for control. you mix it with water, and the way you control it is the molecules pass through a special fitting in your watercooling loop that tells the chip what to do. every light molecule communicates with others in the tube its in to coordinate a lighting style. this can include effects like light arrows flowing in the direction of the water flow, rgb rainbow, or a color spectrum, breathing effect, strobe etc. since the lights are so small the battery lasts years. Would this be possible?

 

After writing this I realized if the molecules were to talk to eachother, they would probably be talking to other molecules in the wrong parts of the loop. To maybe prevent this, what if every fitting was like a checkpoint, and molecules that passed through could only talk to other molecules that pass through?

 

I know computer chips small enough to be on a molecular level are far out from now, but could they exist? and if they ever do exist could this rgb water thing happen?

RGB TOILETS! Or toilet paper ya know.

[Space Reptile]

thermaltake makes RGB fittings 

[Seamonster420]

6 minutes ago, DarthSmartt said:

RGB TOILETS!

[orangecat]

We don't have manufacturing on a per atom level yet. There would be no way to build something like this without single atom precision and when we do stuff like that today it costs millions of dollars. Its a neat idea but I don't see the point. I think it would be easier to make water that has colour changing dye rather than build microscoping chips to change the molecules in water.

[yathis]

Look for pool lighting, or aquarium lighting, they must have RGB LED's, then buy appropriate wiring and special water outlet.

[Bouzoo]

On 3/12/2017 at 0:22 AM, spwath said:

If its the size of a molecule, then what is it made up of?

Obviously, an RGB Higgs Boson.