Nanotech Products Hitting the Market

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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OK people, slow down!

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...One of the first nanotech-related breakthroughs consumers will see, for example, is a new type of sunscreen -- expected to start showing up on store shelves within the next year or so -- being perfected by a German company that was discussed, but not named, at the conference.

The sunscreen's manufacturer (represented by one of its lead investors) says the company has mastered the task of making reliably miniscule particles of a substance that can block out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.

Hair dye, anyone?

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