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more about #nanotech more comments → Benguin: Are you following me camera guy? #carbonnanotubesponge more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Interesting and all, but does it have squarepants? Because it has to have squarepants. Nanotubes or not. #carbonnanotubesponge more » Thomas Thorne: ...I thought they discovered that carbon nanotubes possibly have the same effect on living things as asbestos? I hope not.. 'cause that would kinda de... more » Dezerus Richardson: I can just see Vince up there selling these now. "Look at that! Doesn't drip, doesn't make a mess! Dries all your toxic sludge, radioactive waste!" #... more » nutbastard: ELAINE: So, you think you're sponge-worthy? BILLY: Yes, I think I'm sponge-worthy. I think I'm very sponge-worthy. ELAINE: Run down your case for me... more » Kaiser-Machead: And after we've absorbed all of this harmful sludge with the magic sponges, we can put them in a burlap sack, and have superman toss them into the sun... more » Pessimippopotamus: I foresee that this will bring great advancement to the Chinese inflatable bra technology. Good times. more » BoysNoize: I don't even... #carbonnanotubesponge more » Gary_7vn: And what happens when the replicators get replicators? Would this mean that Americans finally get health care as good as say, France? more » Hi, I'm God: Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration so I guess we're screwed. more » se7a7n7: You know this will only lead to DRMd food. more » HarcourtAetolus: The bigger issue here is what this invention would do to the economic structure of society. If we can replicate anything that we need, what would be t... more » TheGZeus: Grandkids will probably have them. The implications on patented devices and drugs are interesting. Technically, you can make patented things for your... more » thechansen: "No," he said, "look, it's very, very simple ... all I want ... is a cup of tea. You are going to make one for me. Keep quiet and listen." And he sat.... more » OMG! Ponies!: Jesus, you are one lazy bastard. You want tea? Heat up some water, insert leaves in the packaging of your liking, let it steep for 2 minutes, and rem... more » -
#nanotech
The Sponge That Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)
That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable scientific breakthrough nowadays, the answer is spelled N-A-N-O. More » -
#replicators
Bring On the Replicator Already
A gadget site Taste Test week wouldn't be complete without a hat tip to that fictional food-creating staple of the Star Trek universe, the replicator. More » -
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Piezoelectric Nanowires Could Power Future Gadgets Using Blood Flow
Did that headline get your blood pumping? Good. In the future you'll make a great battery. More » -
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Nanopiezoelectric Jacket Harnesses Power From Hamster Movement
Nanopiezoelectric research hopes to pull tiny amounts of power from minuscule movements, like breathing. Now, Georgia Tech researchers have made a nanopiezoelectric jacket for hamsters that successfully generates .1 volts of electricity. More » -
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Bandai's Aqua Dance Water Toy Hypnotizes Using Nanotechnology
Bandai's Aqua Dance water toy utilizes some sort of nanotech coating to send endless balls...of water cascading through a maze. I feel the urge to pee just thinking about it. More » -
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Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision
New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Colorado came up with this crazy idea that if they inject semiconductor nanoparticles in your retinas, photons will make them glow, thus improving your vision. More » -
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Nanotech Material Never Gets Wet, Even When Wet
Through the magic of nanotechnology (we use "magic" only ever so figuratively), chemists from the University of Zurich have developed a new fabric that never gets wet, even after being completely submerged in water for two months. More » -
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#robots
Microrobots Dance to Staged Choreography
These robots are just the size of a hair, but up to five of them can be independently, wirelessly controlled to work (and dance) in harmony. The robots are able to move by inch-worming 10-20 billionths of a meter at once somewhere around 20,000 times a second. The result is small robots that can make their way around with relative alacrity, but still home in on precise movements. And the example video is pretty remarkable: More » -
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Nanowires Could Turn Your T-Shirts Into Nano-Power Stations
A nanotech invention by a US research team offers an intriguing glimpse of the future: slip on some nanowire-embedded clothes, plug your MP3 player or cellphone into them, and as you dance or walk around, your outfit generates enough power to run the gadget. More details on how the fabric works, and some nano-imagery after the jump. More » -
#wireless
A Fully-Functioning Nanotube Radio
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley have invented a radio made of a single carbon nanotube. The device is just a few billionths of a meter in size - so small that it could fit inside a living cell, or float along in your bloodstream. According to physicist and project lead Alex Zettl, who helped researcher Kenneth Jensen come up with the idea for the radio:A single carbon nanotube molecule serves simultaneously as all essential components of a radio — antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier, and demodulator. Using carrier waves in the commercially relevant 40-400 MHz range and both frequency and amplitude modulation (FM and AM), we were able to demonstrate successful music and voice reception.
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