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Nanotech at Work
Rackemup writes: "This article on CNN takes a quick look at some of the areas where nano-technology is being put to work. While nanobots in your bloodstream may be a few years away yet, some companies are already using nano-tech to develop everything from chameleon-like military garments to clear sunscreen (protects like normal sunscreen but looks transparent when you apply it). I wonder how long it'll take them to make me a suit like The Predator..." At this rate of discovery, Gap ads will have nanopants in months ...
"What device that cannot stop bullets could begin to stop them just by adding a computer?"
...do you really think every last residue of soap is free of your clothes?"
...you dont wash your clothes in semen, do you?
--Well if you have a small, lightweight piece of 'nanoclothing', the clothing can detect an incoming projectile, and perhaps reinforce that area with extra fibers or machinery. It would have a very strong resistance on demand, and only in the places needed... allowing you to stay away from heavy and cumbersome bullet proof vests.
"Now, how the heck is this computer going to know there is a bullet?"
--Obviously you don't really understand computers, or you wouldn't be questioning the capibility of one. A computer is limited to the geniouses that design them, and the brains that program them. If you can detect any motion of an object, you can modify it to detect a bullet. Also, it's just a tech-forecast... the real technology hasn't been perfected.
"Ever get the soapy water on you when you didn't want to?
--Well if they're gonna make something like that, I'm sure they would have it be able to tell what kind of soap it's coming in contact with. Even if it did release the scent or dirt into the soap, it would be in the soap, just just spraying it on your face or something. Cloth fibers and nano-bots are totally different. Soap doesnt stick into machinery like it does cloth fibers... even it it was half and half... there must be a tolerance level for it to relase the captured dirt... not just a frekin molecule of soap.
"ever get near a black light and see how your clothes phosphoresces because of the residual things left behind?"
--I think semen and blood show up best for that... that's pretty much what the police use it for. When they test a shirt or something for semen, soap doesnt show up... semen does.