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Nano Logo
leb writes "More useless but fun innovations in nanotech - University of Massachusetts physicist Mark Tuominen may have some trouble finding a T-shirt small enough for the UMass logo recently sketched in his lab. Tuominen and graduate student Mustafa Bal recently created a UMass logo which is roughly the size of a red blood cell - some six micrometers in diameter. Full story and images available from the UMass News office."
Yeh, thats the 1st thing I thought. It would be an excellent idea, make a nanotech turtle.
Or maybe one that could understand postscript would be neater...
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No, I saw the words "Nano Logo", and thought that Hemos wanted a new logo for the nanotech postings. I was almost aiming for the Gimp until I read the rest of the letters in the story... And it wasn't even posted by Hemos.
no seriously, I'd manufacture one nano-logo and embed it in say a 3" cube of clear plastic, maybe visible with a certain power microscope - and sell 'em in bookstores maybe with a little booklet about nano-tech - hey, if people bought pet rocks and chunks of the Berlin Wall....
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IBM has done some really neat molecule size atomic artwork. They figured out how to move atoms with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) and then arranged them on a substrate to write the IBM logo, among other things.
You can check some out here. There are also tons of other pictures there with some short explanations. Definitely worth a browse.
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The proposed additional US funding for nanotech research is probably why we're seeing this picture. It's probably grant posturing, just like the press release from Sandia Labs a couple of weeks ago. I've seen a couple of other releases like like this, too. (Including a really pathetic effort out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute that intentionally or unintentionally confused MEMS with nanotechnology.)
Blah. Am I the only one who thinks at this very moment K. Eric Drexler is coming down from Cambridge to kick the asses of the whinies from UMass who are misusing his pet phrase, "nano"? This doesn't seem particularly useful or innovative. Especially considering that there already exists 0.11 micron etching technology, by traditional means. Now, the day I hear about an UMass logo 0.11 microns across, then I'll be impressed.
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You already can. Microfiche already has the capacity to do that, and that's nowhere near the highest density available.
How about a bunch of nano-turtles pushing bits around on a chip (literally), following LOGO microcode, emulating an 8088? That'd be a kick.
Sorry, I get a kick out of perverse forms of computation like that... Someday I'm going to build a web server that runs on marbles...
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Now what would be neat is if I could get the entire last year's slashdot headlines in the palm of my hand... with all comments ;-)
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Heck, did anyone else see Nano Logo and think--
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WHAT!?! They got a LOGO intrepreter to interact with a nanotech device?!?!
Could you imagine the little bugger thinge booping around to some logo commands? Whoops, did I just put that one up your nose?
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