Physicist Lennard Kwakernaak finds the 'complexity of simple things' intriguing, and it is a tough ask to make an inanimate object count.
The researchers have revealed a few prototypes of these rubber blocks, which seem pretty straightforward. The block that can count to 10 has 22 thick and thin beams. The thicker ones take external stimuli, such as pressure applied on the block, and use it to count the number of times it happens, using the thin beams.to display the count, the thin beams themselves change shape to demonstrate the count of events. The thin beam snaps from left to right to denote the count.
Now that we know how the block works, it definitely does not seem like a revolutionary invention that could change the world. However, as simple as it might come across, the physics behind it is quite complex and one that a computer can "barely simulate," Kwakernaak remarked.
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