Designing a circuit board has long been a craft of patience: place the parts, route hundreds of copper tracks, check the factory can build it, then start over when something does not fit. On November 9, 2026, Anthropic published results suggesting an AI model can now handle most of that loop. Working with the board maker Diode Computers, it asked Claude to design three gadgets from short prompts, and all three prototypes ran without any fixes to their circuitry.
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Pot Breathalyzer
An Oakland company working with scientists from the University of California at Berkeley is claiming a breakthrough in the race to develop an instant roadside marijuana Breathalyzer. Hound Labs Inc, said on Wednesday it had found an accurate way to measure THC, the psychoactive component in cannabis within one or two blows. The portable device is designed to help determine if a driver is impaired from recent marijuana use. The idea is to replace a complicated assortment of costly blood and urine...
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Pocket Breathalyzer for measuring blood alcohol content
The iBAC alcometer is a thumb-sized, portable, breathalyzer spectrometer that measures your blood alcohol content in a way that is similar to tests done at a laboratory.
It transmits the breathalyzer reading to your smartphone via Bluetooth where an application containing your bio data such as your weight and other physical characteristics analyzes the results in about a minute.
It will measure your degree of sobriety, your alcohol burning rate and will even forecast when you will have a z...
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