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Nanotechnology and the Developing World: The Regulatory Gap
Worldchanging, as always, has the reasoned and sensible skinny on regulating an exciting but potentially hazardous new industry.Molecular Manufacturing: Too Dangerous to Allow?
"According to this argument, any research into molecular manufacturing (MM) should be blocked because this technology might be used to build systems that could cause extraordinary damage."'Inbox' by Douglas Rushkoff
A smart little short-short SF story by Douglas Rushkoff. Well worth the five minutes it'll take to read it. Link via BoingBoing.Bureau for Bitching and Moaning
"I ran into Brian Dunbar of the Liftport Company in the comments section over at Murdoc Online, and asked him if he’d do an interview." This is part one thereof.Cell phones with built in projectors? Sooner than you think!
3M announces the launch of a super compact LED projector roughly the size of a peanut designed to be integrated into cell phones and portable media devices.Nanowires on the brain
Why use invasive surgery to place electrodes in the brain when you can feed polymer nanowire through tiny blood vessels to the same locations?Nano-welds herald new era of electronics
"The world’s smallest construction site is taking shape in a laboratory in Switzerland, thanks to the development of new welding techniques that work at scales of a billionth of a metre."INTK Industrial Nanotech CEO, Stuart Burchill, Letter to Shareholders
This is an exciting time at Industrial Nanotech and in the next few months you will continue to see the company aggressively move forward and fortify new opportunities in U.S. and overseas markets."Chromophores" Emerge as New Class of Nanoscale Semiconductors
In layman's terms: very very small wires that conduct very very quickly.Nanotechnology "more risky than bicycles"
"The US public feels that nanotechnology is more risky and offers less benefit than bicycles [...] The technology was, however, seen as more beneficial than handguns." Is it just me, or areMagnetic fields could make computers up to 500 times faster
Increase performance by removing the need for interconnecting wires in microprocessors - study starting at Bath University.Israel developing 'bionic hornet' weapon
"Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets..." Ouch.Virtual Nano-Lego!
Software for designing and modelling your own theoretical nanotech machines! Nice little demos to look at; imagine a differential gear system made at an atomic scale. Degrees in atomic physics helpfulFossilized Liquid Assembly: Nanomaterials Research Tool
"Borrowing a page from nature's playbook, researchers ... have developed a novel platform for the self-assembly of experimental hierarchical surfaces in a fluid." Heavy science, but interestAnnihilation omens
"Homo connectus will relegate the obsolete nation-state and its dysfunctional institutions to artifacts of history, quaint but useless." Where do I sign? ;) This sounds like a book worth reaA Brief History of Self-Replicating Machines
"...there’s still more work to be done before we can create artificial self-replicating systems. Let’s take a look at the history of the concept in recent times."
