In Kathleen Ann Goonan’s novel Queen City Jazz, a near future Earth has cybernetic bees that help build and rebuild society when the need arises. Buildings also build themselves with nano-technology, if I recall right. Well it’s not quite what Israel is doing, but they are building [Antara] tiny, remote controlled vehicles called RPVs (Remote […]
New Nanotech Helium Atom Camera
A new method of spraying helium atoms in an X-ray wave-like fashion could result in a nanotech-level atom camera or microscope. The research is based on de Broglie waves, for which France’s Louis de Broglie won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929.
Nanoeggs
Nanoeggs are asymmetric particles that can be used for […]
3-D Stackable Computer Chips From Single Crystals
Research engineers at a Wisconsin university have come up with nanotechnology via a new process to produce a single-crystal layer TFT (thin-film transistor), extracted from a semiconductor, that can be stacked to produce 3-D computer chips. Other uses include solar cells, RFID tags, and flat panel displays.
It’ll be a […]
Telepresence can be defined as the projection of self to remote location, usually through means of video, audio, and general electronic means. On occasion, this is done by using robots controlled remotely, sending back information about the environment so that the human operator at the other end can give further instruction to the robot. Surgeons […]
There are some bold new technologies being researched, and they are going to impact our lives in incredible ways. Here’s a summary of a sampling from a fascinating, indepth article from the PC Mag website (which comes from the Aug 8th, 2006 print edition of PC Mag). Web page links to each technology are provided […]
Nanotechnology, aka nanotech, is the study of structures designed and built at the nanoscale - in other words, at the molecular and atomic levels. A nanometer is defined as being 1 x 10^-9 metres, or a billionth of a metre.
Nanotech focuses on objects with dimensions of 1 to 100 nm (nanometres). To get an idea […]
