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Jess Kinghorn

The world's first 'body in a box' biological computer costs $35,000 and looks both cool as hell plus creepy as heck

The Cortical Labs CL1 biological computer.

Here's one for you: when is a 'body in a box' not as macabre as it sounds? Simple—when it's a tech startup. Wait! Put the turn-of-the-millennium trench coat and sunglasses combo down! Let me explain.

The CL1 is described as "the world’s first code deployable biological computer" according to the splashy website, incorporating human brain cells in order to send and receive electrical signals (via The Independent). These cells hang out on the surface of the computer's silicon chip, and the machine's Biological Intelligence Operating System (or biOS for short—cute), allows users to wrangle the neurons for a variety of computing tasks.

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