Researchers claim new device will help gamers

CANBERRA - Australian researchers recently said they have designed a new device that could someday be used in gaming consoles to improve graphics and the speed of data transfer.

The device, created by a team at the Australian National University in collaboration with a team from the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany, is similar to a tiny antenna around 100 times thinner than human hair, and is used to speed up data exchange between processors in a console.

The invention was two years in the making.