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Nanotech Products Hitting the Market

Posted by michael on from the does-it-come-in-extra-large dept.

stdin writes "Saw this on SFGate. Nanotech's first fruits are nearing the consumer market." Not little machines, yet, but a variety of products using very small components.

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  1. ahh so they are doing it with fruit! by Jonny+Ringo · · Score: 5, Funny


    Wait don't eat that apple, that's my Web Server!!!

  2. Interesting Quote by Chagatai · · Score: 2, Funny
    I liked this quote:

    "We need to see a technology that can lead to real products," explained Zwi Vromen, whose Israel-based Millennium Materials Fund has made 19 nanotechnology investments to date."

    So now, not only do we have nanotechnological fruits, but we have nanotechnological fruits that shall battle for the Holy Land inside my colon! Jihad!

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    --Chag
  3. Re:No Nano! by PD · · Score: 3, Funny

    And that's why bacteria are so hard to kill - they are moving fast.

    Guess I should mention a crazy little thing call sarchasm now...

    Nanobots will use those devices anyone who has looked at bacteria has seen. Little spinning appendages, or little waving appendages, or little oscillating appendages, or possibly a gas turbine. Ha ha only serious.

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    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  4. Nano nano! by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Funny

    Umm, forgive me, but I don't think the "gray goo" syndrome referred to the stuff you squeeze out of a bottle of sunblock.

  5. Re:The new buzzword by plastic_heaven · · Score: 2, Funny

    The first company to pitch an idea using the words "nano", "tech", "green", and "anti-terrorist" will likely have no problem getting funding. :)

  6. My favorite quote... by soboroff · · Score: 3, Funny
    "(A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, the width of about 10 atoms lined up shoulder-to-shoulder. The head of a pin, by comparison, is about one million nanometers in diameter)."


    I didn't know atoms had shoulders. About how many Libraries of Congress can that hold?
  7. Perpetual phone calls by Macka · · Score: 3, Funny

    What makes the batteries even more remarkable, according to an investor in the company that developed them, is that they can be recharged by radio waves that pass harmlessly through body tissues.


    Great! Now we can have mobile phones that recharge themselves.

    Macka