Nanotechnoioniclogical Weirdness Coming up?

It looks like theres a new type of nanotechnology called the memristor thats going to allow chipthingys to act like brains. Is it real? theres already people talking about investing in memristors… so if thats a gauge, looks like its real. braaiiiiinnnnsss! although it sounds like they’ll mostly be used to make cat brains do weird things. Swibbles?