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A Round of Applause for the Gonorrhea-Based Molecular Machine
Gonorrhea isn't just an STD known for causing burning sensations when you pee; it's the strongest organism known to man. Able to pull 100,000 times its body weight, the clap may soon serve a purpose greater than painfully reminding you of nights spent cruising the Red Light District. Scientists hope to use gonorrhea bacteria in nanotech devices because of the strong forces they can exert on nearby objects. In the clip above, gonorrhea is using pili filaments it produces, which are 10 times longer than the bacterium itself, to pull tiny columns. More »
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Robotic Hand May Be Tiny, Has Strong Grip
Scientists have developed a pair of robotic hands that are both strong and sensitive. The tweezers can guide themselves to pick up and move individual cells without damaging them, and have a grip that can be as slight as 20 nanoNewtons of force. In fact, so advanced are the little grippers, that they can be hitched up to a microscope and, with the right software, function without human control. More below. More »
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Your Smelly Ass Feet Are Killing the Planet
Your feet? They smell like a baboon's butthole. Especially at the gym. So, the brilliant dudes at places like Nike and Adidas have started lining their socks with nano-bits of silver to fight microbials and the intense funk radiating from your tootsies. It works (woohoo), but every time you wash them, some of the particles inevitably come loose from the sock and flush down the drain, ultimately winding up in local waterways. Where they poison fishies. To death. Not cool. In conclusion, have less stinky feet, thanks. [American Chemical Society via io9]
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Nanobots Get Brains, Scarecrows So Freakin' Jealous
We love this quote from Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay of Japan's National Institute for Materials Science:...this is the first time we have created a nano-brain.Is anyone else a little flushed after reading that? Here's the story: More »
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Nokia's new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user's needs, a far cry from today's solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or tablet form, and nanotech cleverness means it would even clean itself. Developed in cooperation with Cambridge University, this glimpse of a distant future is now on display at the MoMA in New York. Jump for video and yadda-yadda press release.
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Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans Itself
Nokia's new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user's needs, a far cry from today's solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or tablet form, and nanotech cleverness means it would even clean itself. Developed in cooperation with Cambridge University, this glimpse of a distant future is now on display at the MoMA in New York. Jump for video and yadda-yadda press release.
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4:55 AM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
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Latest by Kspec1212: Yeah, the Morph is way out there, but this kind of visioning really says something about how we get to this point in the future. We may never actually see a morph in real life, but over time aspects of more »
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Nanotech Coating Uses Sunlight to Banish Smelly Socks Forever
Scientists in China and Australia have developed a method of cleaning fabric using nanotechnology that avoids dunking clothes in soapy water, before scrubbing and rinsing. The titanium dioxide-based coating bonds to silk and wool and uses sunlight to automagically decompose dirt, stains and microorganisms, meaning smelly socks could be a thing of the past—something that teenage boys' moms will applaud the world over. More »
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Rough Nano-Wires Hold the Secret to Efficient Heat to Electricity Conversion
The latest edition of Nature magazine details a new method scientists have derived for converting heat energy into electricity, using silicon to instigate the conversion. Researchers have more investigations to carry out, but if preliminary findings are indicative of what is to come, appliances that charge using your own body heat may be on the horizon.More »
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Our newest family member, the slick sci-fi culture blog io9, has been around for about a day now and is already pumping out the hits. Just take a look at this photo of exploding nano-wires they posted. Yes, those are the tiniest explosions you've ever seen. Taken with an electron scanning micrograph by Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, it just (understandably) won first prize in the "Science as Art" competition. It's simultaneously beautiful and mindblowing. [Nanowerk via io9]
Exploding Nano-Wires Create Maybe the Coolest Picture We've Ever Seen
Our newest family member, the slick sci-fi culture blog io9, has been around for about a day now and is already pumping out the hits. Just take a look at this photo of exploding nano-wires they posted. Yes, those are the tiniest explosions you've ever seen. Taken with an electron scanning micrograph by Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, it just (understandably) won first prize in the "Science as Art" competition. It's simultaneously beautiful and mindblowing. [Nanowerk via io9]
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Stanford Professor Conjures Up 10x Life on Traditional Li-Ion Batteries
Thanks to nanotechnology, an assistant professor at Stanford University has come up with a breakthrough in the longevity of Lithium-Ion batteries. As well as being able to power your laptop for up to 20 hours—10 times more than current levels—Yi Cui thinks that his design could also work on iPods and other handheld devices that rely on small batteries to work. The skinny after the jump. More »
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Researchers Develop Technology to Make Terabyte Thumb Drives Possible
Boffins at Arizona University have developed a new process that will allow the production of low cost, energy efficient, high capacity memory. High capacity refers to the ability to construct an economically viable terabyte thumb drive. The new technique relies upon making changes to copper particles at the molecular level. The end result is a new memory standard that costs one-tenth the price of traditional flash memory, and is a staggering 1000 times more energy efficient. Michael Kozicki (pictured), director of ASU's Center for Applied Nanoionics, whose team was behind the development, said: More »
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Claytronics: Programmable Nano-matter Creates Objects, Bad Fake Ads, Lousy Actors
This is Claytronics, a concept technology "formed by billions of microscopic robots, each with computational abilities and sensors that enable interaction." In theory, it will allow you to create 3D objects directly and manipulate them in real time. Like Silly Putty but smart, animated and without all the mess. More »
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Nanogenerator Magically Cranks Out Watts From the Environment
We're thinking this nanotechnology thing is catching on big-time. First someone figured out how to use the technology to keep panties fresh and odor-free, and now brilliant scientists have been developing small generators that might just be able to someday do away with batteries. They're first trying to develop a way to power those devices that are so minuscule you could fit thousands of them on the head of a pin. More »
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Nanotech Spray Protects Gadgets From Boy-Grease
While all the Giz guys are up in Vegas ooh-ing and aah-ing over gadgets to come in the 07, I'm thinking, how the fuck are they going to keep their boy-grease from smearing all over their new toys? But that's why we have things like this nanotech supercoat gadget spray, which gets rid of old dirt and protects your iPhones and Beef Thermometers from french fry-eating, ass-wiping fingers. More »
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Nanonuno Umbrella Uses Nanotechnology To Dry Off Completely After a Shake
Though Ive tried before to tell her
Of the nanostructures that cover this umbrella
Every time that I come near her
I just lose my NanoNuno as I've done from the start More »
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Strom Fishing Lures Use Nanotach to Catch Four Times More Fish
Nanotech is creeping into our lives, and now it surfaces in fishing lures, where vacuum equipment manufacturer Ulvac has created Strom, an especially shiny fishing lure with an optical coating that uses nanotechnology. The trick here is its holographic color that keeps its shininess regardless of the viewing angle. That will theoretically attract the attention of veritable universities of fish. More »
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Small Circuit Opens Big Possibilities
Nanoscience takes one more step forward as the first single-molecule computer circuit was just built by United States researchers. Take a look at the picture here and you'll see the circuit which is so tiny it measures less than a fifth of the width of a human hair. It was assembled on a single carbon nanotube, and even though it can only achieve a poky speed of 50MHz, that's 100,000 times faster than any other devices that have ever been made with carbon nanotubes. More »
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