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BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech
Dan B. writes "The Technology section in The Age today is running a story on the current 'Next Generation' nanotech coming to a store near you from BASF. Interesting read, but I'd like some more info on the 10 hour batteries the size of a cigarette lighter."
There's always a "reader" (I use the term loosely, since they rarely read the links) who will vehemently respond to something not said nor even implied; congratulations, you're the one for this story.
Insult the readers. Best way to increase the readership, right mike?
Not that it ever happened to me... oh wait...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
So if nothing was said or even implied in your sentence, then it obviously has no value and should have never been added to the story.
But of course it does say something. It says "I feel so important as an editor I have to add my 2 cents in everywhere, even when there's no reason to."
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Oh you shouldn't have question Michael, now you will definitely feel his wrath.
Lets Hang Him...
That's ok. I know what sort of child he is. I expect nothing less from him than a tantrum.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
... and of course now you get immediately bitch-slapped down.
Such is always the case with unlimited mod points when they are given to people with unhealthy egos.
Mod this down.
Offtopic, troll, flamebait.
All apply.
If you believe in what you say so much, put your money where your mouth is. Take your editorial opinions out of the story text and post it as a comment. Surely it'll be modded up to +5, Insightful in short order anyway, you being such a veritable fountain of wisdom and all.
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If you are going to mod me down offtopic, at least have the decency to mod your own comment down, for it, too, is off topic.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The last time I questioned mikey in a series of posts I lost 20 points of karma in one day. Hard to believe there were than many "fans" waiting around to help their "comrade" in arms out.
What's really amazing is that michael thinks he is in the right. He is so blinded by his own self-worth that he honestly believes he is doing the right thing here. It's so sad to see someone throw good intelligence down the drain.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
There's always an "editor" (I use the term loosely, since their copy would rarely pass my third grade English teacher) who will weakly respond to the criticism that their irresponsible hyperbole has earned them; congratulations, you're the one for this story.
Editors have unlimited mod points. He doesn't have any fans, he actually modded down your posts. He stalked and tracked you. He's a child with a gun and no one is going to win in that situation.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Cute .sig, Michael 'censorware.org' Simms.
I'll have you know that I myself am not Sethf, but merely someone who's been disgusted with your ill-informed editorial stance on many an issue, something which was really brought to the forefront when you defended the foolish anarchist responsible for RaiseTheFist.com.
You think it matters to FK? Damn nearly every active /. reader has him auto-modded up to +5 in the minimum.
;)
He's a force of E-Nature.
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excuse me, i believe you are modding this thread down incessantly and posting a comment at the same time. isn't that a contradiction of the moderators cannot post in the same article rule? if so then all your offtopic bitchslapping moderations should be undone. why is it now? and don't tell me actual readers are modding this thread down. you wouldn't get one soul to believe that.
Posted anonymously for fear of retribution.
See what I mean? It's sad but true.
Hi michael. Thanks for stopping by. Looks like I'll have to make a few intelligent posts now to make up for the losses here. At least I'll be adding more to this site than you ever will.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
This is fun. Thanks mike. I'm glad I'm making you feel good about yourself. At least I'm doing something worthwhile, unlike your existance.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
put me down for another slap. i hope this turns into the post of doom part 2 and then michael sims gets fired. what an great advocate for "freedom".
your rights online indeed.
How about some more? I'm happy to contribute to the "michael needs a life" fund.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
If he's not been fired by now, he's never going to get fired. /. hired him either because he has pictures of someone or because they're blind to his behavior.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Must be fun to hide behind unlimited mod points. I'm glad you're so powerful. This thread is just proof that you can not handle the responsability of being an editor.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
this is getting ridiculous, michael sims is now clearly abusing his powers to punish users who criticize him and his idiotic ramblings. and now he is breaking his own rules by commenting and modding down in the same story. this is sorta like communist China or the old U.S.S.R. where the leaders would just make rules as they go, or just brazenly defy their own laws.
nice work hypocrites!
What the fuck is Michael's problem?
This is sad. Mr. Taco had best be hooking you up with 15 or 20 points to make up for this shit.
Nah, Taco et all don't care. They've never cared actually. michael has got free reign on his stories and over his moderation abuse. I don't think Taco or anyone has ever issued an apology for some of michaels worse offenses.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Didn't angry-mike come over as part of the andover buyout?
I believe the original editors didn't like him then and it would be hard to believe they like him now.
that's not the point. negative moderation triggers an IP-gag, which keeps FortKnox from posting. this is something that Michael would be interested in. additionally, if FortKnox goes negative in karma, he can only post twice a day. this is something Michael would love. as CmdrTaco once pointed out, KARMA MATTERS A LOT (he may have phrased it differently, i forget).
i'm an anonymous coward - i can't afford not to be.
Uh oh. I'm down from "Excellent" karma to "Good" now. I count close to 30 mod points lost today because of michael. I'd rather not let him get me all the way to negative karma so I'll end here. Let this thread stand as a testament to the abuses of the moderation system and the lack of intelligence michael has.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
This is a serious issue in science and technology alike, and shouldn't be avoided as an issue.
A lot of people don't understand the kind of thinking that goes into the scientific process these days. There are many cases of Physicists, Chemists, Bio-chemists who spend many years testing a single hyposthesis.
Sitting in a lab all day looking at spreadsheets for 5 years will challenge anyone's sanity. Often times these scientists, who are very pressured by the "publish or perish" dogma of academia, are very anxious about thier results. So much so that many of them begin to have fantasies in thier minds about the results...they literally build a play-world in thier minds.
Almost any scientist who's worked on a new theory can attest to this, it's like thinking you're holding the $100Billion lotto ticket in your hand, it's very exciting...you want to believe, the lust for fame, the recognition you always deserved but never recieved, fantasies of being promoted, going to a better university...it sounds like something a very disturbed individual would think...but believe me, it's very very common place.
My point here is this; these scientists who release bad results are not neccesarily "evil" or trying to "dupe" the scientific community. They have simply lost touch with reality...and want thier fantasy world to come true so badly...that they really do believe in the validity of what they publish. So ultimately the "fault" should rest in the rigor of the editors who publish these results. That's where the check and balance between fantasy and science should be.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
wow, i didnt know michael had it in him to post in the discussion!
Please see subject, k, thx!
More likely, he'll hack bitchslap.pl to mod up his comment.
That's assuming Mr. Sims has the intelligence to hack Perl...
This is a modbombing test. I want to see if i get modded down by Mike who seems to be making another feeble attempt to sensor a thread.
hmm.. a quick look at your posting history shows that, more often than not, that "reader" is you.
suck my balls, you nazi cunt. You are such a worthless faggot. I like seeing you drop in to make one lame comment, unable to actually defend yourself or your hypocrisy. Then you wander off, stopping back in occasionally to gag anyone who bothers you. Go back to masterbating to mein kampf assbag.
This looks like a job for Seth Finkelstein!
time to drop three karma points. i wonder if this will add me to the No More Trolls neo-rtbl shit list...
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You know, you really wouldn't have this problem if you just relaxed a little more. Maybe some anger management counseling?
Max
Woot w00t w007.
If you're going to be silenced by a Slashfag, you're a pussy ass homo bitch if you do it willingly.
I feel thereis a chasm in you interpretation of Editorial Comment and Opinion. Please take a moment to review both.
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
Well, Michael, the readers of Slashdot seem to disagree.
His comment is mod'ed to 5 whereas yours is -1.
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It's editors like you that make me happy I don't pay for any slashdot subscriptions. Maybe when you stop insulting your readers more people might actually be interested in giving money to you guys.
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Hey michel fuck you, thanks
this guy's been on my friends list forever, and constantly posts interesting material.
You on the other hand...
and why is this not public if your so damn right?
and fuck you again
I hope you didn't need any karma, cetan.
Lets hang the moderators!!!!!
I like michael sims.
G. Oatse.
hey michael, how many posts have you censored today?
hey michael, you fucktard, he was replying to something *you* wrote. Don't like it? Why don't you just edit the story! Asshole
You ripped my God damn heart out.
Bury yourselves in the Vet's rubble, please.
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One of the dirty secrets of Slashdot is the editor's abuse of the moderation system. They mass-moderate comments in threads that they don't like, and sometimes even mod down all the comments of users they don't like. Even malicious users who don't like you for whatever reason can abuse certain moderations and not be penalized for it. Some misdirected noble users have tried coming up with ways not to play this moderation game, which is useless because Slashdot track karma by IP address. But, why should we inconvienence ourselves in order to suit the abuse of despots?
I would like to take this opportunity to declare the opening of a petition for the Slashdot editors to fit the moderation system of Slashdot to the people. It is located here, and I estimate at least 1000 signatures are needed in order for the powers that be to take it seriously.
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BASF we don't make nano tech, we make nano tech better.
Imagine never having to polish your shoes again, having glistening white teeth without visiting a dentist, or owning a mobile phone powered by a miniature battery. These are not just idle fantasies, but a reality where small things could make your wildest dreams come true. A band of scientists believe they can push the boundaries of chemistry and physics to create a host of tiny particles that could revolutionise products we use every day. Welcome to the wonderful world of nanotechnology. You may already be digesting and using nanoproducts without knowing it. Fizzy drinks and fruit juices get their rainbow of colours from tiny particles that dissolve in liquid and disappear without a trace. Many vitamins are insoluble in water but can be added to food by making them into particles smaller than the eye can see. Cosmetics such as sunscreen are made of mini-particles that act as miniature solar soldiers, absorbing harmful ultra-violet light to protect your skin from the sun. At a recent conference in Mannheim, Germany, scientists working at the chemical company BASF presented a huge range of products that could soon be out on supermarket shelves. Nanotechnology has been heralded as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. By manipulating particles 50,000 times smaller than a human hair, materials can be merged into products or can create new properties. Manufactured products are made from atoms. Their properties depend on how the atoms are arranged. What nanotechnology does is build things one atom at a time to create myriad novel molecular goods possessing amazing properties. The magical trick is to manipulate the molecules and place them where they are needed to make the right structure. Nature has played an inspirational role in pushing this mini-world forward. The leaf of an exotic flower inspired the creation of a spray that refuses to let dirt stick to shoes. The lotus flower from Asia has leaves with a strange arrangement of wax crystals on its surface that repel water. As this liquid rolls over leather, it takes any dust or dirt along for the ride, leaving your shoes spotless. Harald Keller, a polymer scientist at BASF, has trapped this lotus effect in a can. Once you apply the spray, it dries into the leather and takes on an arrangement similar to the leaves. "I believe that, with improvements, this spray should conceivably last a few years before having to be reapplied," says Keller. It could also be used on building materials, paper and textiles. It is not only footwear that benefits from the wonders of the nanoworld. The effect that film stars get from teeth bleaching to blind us on-screen could soon be available in a humble tube of toothpaste. "At the moment, every time you brush your teeth you damage the enamel. This latest idea is to rebuild the attacked enamel using nanoparticles incorporated in toothpaste that seals pores and restores the natural whiteness of the teeth," says Ralf Norenberg, from the performance chemical division at BASF. Norenberg made tiny particles of hydroxyapatite, which has the same chemical structure as tooth enamel. He found that, when applied to teeth, it created a protective coating that did not allow dirt to invade. The key lies in the unique shape of the apatite particles. This material forms a suspension of rod-shaped crystallites that ensures the teeth get all-over smooth cover and demonstrates flawless organisation, claims Norenberg. Other products already on the market are not as effective and use optical brightness, which "paints" your pearly whites, causing pimples to form that allow bacteria to settle and breed on the surface. The miniature wonder-workers do not stop there. In a world driven by technology there is always a need to create and store information more efficiently. As mobiles and laptops get smaller, their source of power needs to do the same. A revolutionary nanocube that can store hydrogen may solve this problem. These cubes, combining the features of plastic drink bottles and sun cream - terephthalic acid and zinc oxide - have a huge range of applications. Their high surface area and porous nature allows them to adsorb hydrogen and release the gas as energy when a rapid drop in pressure occurs. As they are rechargeable, they could replace conventional batteries. Storing the gas in a container the size of a cigarette lighter would mean they could power small portable appliances for up to 10 hours. -Telegraph
THIS ONE IS IN THE BAG. START PRINTING THE SUPERBOWL SHIRTS RIGHT NOW!!
WOOT
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...for 10-hour battery schematics.
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Science: BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech
Posted by timothy on Sunday January 19, @07:52PM
from the tech-porn dept.
First off, your joke is barely even laughable. Secondly, it's downright innappropriate for any kids or young teenagers to be reading on a site like this.
I have filters on our home machine in the Mozilla set-up that only allow certains sites to be read by my children (we all have our own user profiles).
I have always allowed them to read the Slashdot front page and all the links that are pointed to by the stories. I've never let them read the comments.pl page because of all the sex and violence talk at the 0 and -1 levels.
But with this talk about pornography from the Slashdot editors now, I don't think I'll even let my children read your site. Sure, you may think it's innocent, but some of us are very offended by pornography in general and the connotation it gives females and the sickening thoughts it gives males about domination and bossing around women.
You should be ashamed of yourself. I ask of you to please change the department title and reconsider what you write in the future.
Thank you,
-- A concerned Slashdot reader and parent
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Next story please. Small things amuse small minds.
Prey is coming true
Will these products be labeled accordingly like GM foods? I certinally hope so.
The EU will force clear labling, I bet the USA tries to hide it like they did with the GM foods.
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Everyone knows about BSD's failure and imminent demise. As we pore over the history of BSD, we'll uncover a story of fatal mistakes, poor priorities, and personal rivalry, and we'll learn what mistakes to avoid so as to save Linux from a similarly grisly fate.
Let's not be overly morbid and give BSD credit for its early successes. In the 1970s, Ken Thompson and Bill Joy both made significant contributions to the computing world on the BSD platform. In the 80s, DARPA saw BSD as the premiere open platform, and, after initial successes with the 4.1BSD product, gave the BSD company a 2 year contract.
These early triumphs would soon be forgotten in a series of internal conflicts that would mar BSD's progress. In 1992, AT&T filed suit against Berkeley Software, claiming that proprietary code agreements had been haphazardly violated. In the same year, BSD filed countersuit, reciprocating bad intentions and fueling internal rivalry. While AT&T and Berkeley Software lawyers battled in court, lead developers of various BSD distributions quarreled on Usenet. In 1995, Theo de Raadt, one of the founders of the NetBSD project, formed his own rival distribution, OpenBSD, as the result of a quarrel that he documents on his website. Mr. de Raadt's stubborn arrogance was later seen in his clash with Darren Reed, which resulted in the expulsion of IPF from the OpenBSD distribution.
As personal rivalries took precedence over a quality product, BSD's codebase became worse and worse. As we all know, incompatibilities between each BSD distribution make code sharing an arduous task. Research conducted at MIT found BSD's filesystem implementation to be "very poorly performing." Even BSD's acclaimed TCP/IP stack has lagged behind, according to this study.
Problems with BSD's codebase were compounded by fundamental flaws in the BSD design approach. As argued by Eric Raymond in his watershed essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, rapid, decentralized development models are inherently superior to slow, centralized ones in software development. BSD developers never heeded Mr. Raymond's lesson and insisted that centralized models lead to 'cleaner code.' Don't believe their hype - BSD's development model has significantly impaired its progress. Any achievements that BSD managed to make were nullified by the BSD license, which allows corporations and coders alike to reap profits without reciprocating the goodwill of open-source. Fortunately, Linux is not prone to this exploitation, as it is licensed under the GPL.
The failure of BSD culminated in the resignation of Jordan Hubbard and Michael Smith from the FreeBSD core team. They both believed that FreeBSD had long lost its earlier vitality. Like an empire in decline, BSD had become bureaucratic and stagnant. As Linux gains market share and as BSD sinks deeper into the mire of decay, their parting addresses will resound as fitting eulogies to BSD's demise.
BASF nanotech tantalizes you!
Not to be a jerk, but who gives a fuck? I think I speak for the majority who read this site that it's quality of article submissions has certainly gone down over the years. I think the editors like Rob, Michael, etc need to quit busting cocks up each others asses all the time and do so serious work on this site.
And I don't give a shit about all this "OSDN" shit either. VA Software is nothing but a bunch of stupid faggots that make junk software that no one is interested in at all.
This site needs to be at the recieving end of some DoS attacks. Linux sucks, just admit it. "Kathleen" Malda is a transvestite.
The only good posts here are from the TRoLLs.
I guess it depends upon the load, eh?
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Imagine never having to polish your shoes again, having glistening white teeth without visiting a dentist, or owning a mobile phone powered by a miniature battery. These are not just idle fantasies, but a reality where small things could make your wildest dreams come true.
wow! this guy's pretty darn wild! I bet for a big night out he turns on the TV and drinks a whole light beer. I mean, c'mon - with all the possibilities for nanotechnology, having self-polishing shoes is the best he could come up with?
it looks that just as with other technologies (www, e-commerce, ...) we're gonna have to wait for the pron industry to break new ground and lead the way ... oh, the possiblities!!! Wait a minute, don't. Eughh!
This sig intentionally left bla... dammit!
Who's got the whiteout?
In other news, this new movie with the motorcycles and Kid Rock/white trash looks to be the worst movie this side of Deuce Bigalo. Never place bets on a team from Pennsylvania. They will never cover the spread. The only good player who has ever played for a Pennsylvanian organization is the great Lenny Dykstra. Nails will live on forever...but as a Met. The Phillies are shit. The Eagles are shit. The Flyers are shit. Allen Iverson stole my fucking car!!! Long live the Revolution.
Hey, did you see Oprah eat that chunk of feces on TV today? That was fucking awesome!
The impression I got from the article is that it would be 10 hours for something possibly smaller and less power hungry than a laptop, since it was in the context of devices getting smaller.. I could be wrong though.
BASF = Badische Anilin -und- Soda Fabrik
Hour is not a measure of power. How many amp- hours is this battery capable of? What terminal voltage?
A standard size D Alkaline battery is 17 amp-hours at 1.5 volts. That sounds a lot more impressive than a 10 hour battery, and it's using 30 year old technology.
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If they are rebuilding your Enamel to make your teeth whiter... it seems a whole lot more interesting that you are actually repairing your teeth.
;)
Say good bye to dentists? Now that really would rock. Well for those of us that actually go
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From the article:
Imagine never having to polish your shoes again, having glistening white teeth without visiting a dentist, or owning a mobile phone powered by a miniature battery.
When my work shoes need polishing, my wife does it or I pay 50 cents and have them done at the Mall Foodcourt or something.
I got glistening white teeth by using Colgate Gel. It's $14.99 and quite a bargain.
And my mobile phone gets 6 hours of battery life on a single charge, which is plenty since I don't really talk to many people.
So, honestly, could someone point me toward some practical real-world applications of this supposed "Next Generation" of nanotechnology?!
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A battery the size of a cigarette lighter that lasts for 10 hours? I've got those. They're these little sticks with two "A"'s marked on them and they run my GBA for a good 15 hours
Miniature batteries for my mobile phone? Gee I think I've got that too. It lasts about 10 hours. And I can replentish it by using this other magical device on my wall called a socket.
Seriously... fuel cells will need to run a phone for a month at least to be worth it. A laptop better run for a couple weeks. Recharging them isn't a simple matter of plugging them in the wall as it is now... you've got to replace the hydrogen (or other fuel, most people seem focused on hydrogen for some inane reason, even though it's hard to make and doesn't have much energy content).
This article, like many other nanotech articles, is mostly hype and handwaving (and most of these things aren't even what you typically consider nanotech). So who won buzzword bingo? ;-)
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
Barely A Speck. Freaky.
My
Limekiller
you people need to have elephant shit blown in your faces.
you nigger loving shit for brains losers
hahahahahahaha
fuck the Eagles
TRoLL
"So Snake, I'm going to activate your nanomachines in your blood to give you massage in your arm after that torture." Wasn't that one of the most weird moments in videogame history?
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
FROM: Thambo Mbeki [mailto: tham_bo1@mail.com ]
/investment of $10,000,000.00 (Ten million United
MAILED: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:28 AM
SUBJECT: Consider This
Greetings. It is indeed my pleasure to write you this email. This might
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with the Ministry of Minerals and Energy in South Africa, and by this
email, I am representing and also acting on behalf of my boss and two other
senior colleagues (The Director-General and the Group General Manager)
whose mandate I have, to contact a trusted and reliable foreign based
partner, concerning an investment opportunity/funds transfer.
By this mandate given to me, we are in dire need of a foreign partner to
assist us in the transfer
States Dollars.) The key issues is the transfer and the subsequent
investment of the said sum. We are ready to go into an agreement with you
and also "OFFER YOU A NEGOTIABLE FEE" IF you help us in securing the
transfer and also PUTTING TOGETHER AN INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO in which
the
funds will be invested in your Country.
It does not matter whether or not you own a company or you invested funds
before, WE SHALL GUIDE YOU ON WHAT TO DO. The bases will be that a major
company won a contract from my ministry and subcontracted it to you. More
often, big trading companies and firms of unrelated fields win contract and
subcontracts to more specialised firms for execution.
We shall follow strictly all the legal procedures entailed in our laws and
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Please, be informed that under the South African Government monetary
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And I gotta agree with someone who posted above. When it comes to nanotechnology, which probably will be a cornerstone on science in years to come, and these are the applications the writer busts a hard on over, god help the man if he ever sees a porno. I mean come on, at least write about something I can't do by myself. I want tiny robots damn it! And flying F'in cars!
Mod Points: Helping you keep your opinion to yourself.
From an economist's or business person's perspective, that's one hell of an achievement. As near as I can figure, just about everybody in 1st world nations wear shoes. That means they've developed a new product which is marketable to every person on the planet who wears a pair of shoes.
Figure $5/bottle. Figure 1 billion customers. You do the math.
The mass media owns the jews!
Manufactured products are made from atoms.
No shit, Sherlock...
If I hate something more than a buzzword (remember Blast Processing and the Sega Genesis?), is an article that is just about a buzzword.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
This sounds like a great opportunity!!!
are you hear to replace SexyKellyOsbourne?
ok...most of us know all of this already. we all know that nano tech can be a great service...longer battery life, clothes that clean themselves, etc...
what they don't mention are the possible negitive effects. it's like atomic power...great benifit, possibly nasty applications. to apply nano tech to consumer goods is one thing, but to use it to make weapons is quite another (on a morality scale). this technology is more highly adaptive than anything else we have seen before.
governments the world over have been toying with nano tech to make weapons that kill more efficently, are more easily hidden, etc. what happens when common street thugs can "make" their own weapons with nano tech? what happens when countries that have firearms bans (uk, australia, others) have people running arround with nanotech weapons that are small and more leathal than the standard lead slug fired by a gun today? how do you track things like this? what happens when the government/corperation/etc decides to make a nanotech listening device out of the paint in your home?
this is a tech that is to be truly feared and respected. remember...technology is only as good as those who use it.
-frozen
I'm not always the brightest pixel in the stream
These outrageous claims remind me of the old AT&T commercials:
... ... ...
"Ever had a robot that did all your household chores, cooked your meals, ran your errands, and looked like it came from http://www.realdoll.com?...
No?
You will!
And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T."
Of course, nothing they promised ever got delivered, and certainly not by AT&T.
-Michael
Threshold RPG
Here's the link to the article on the BASF website.
Dan. -- So what if it's spelt wrong, nobody's perfect
I'm still waiting for my mediatronic chopsticks.
my associative arrays can kick your hash - TCL
This is a recap of press releases issued from 1999-2002. Seriously! They're even ordered chronologically in the thesis paragraph. I realize this because I've been keeping a local archive of every mnt-related press release that I've come across since 1998.
It's a well-written piece, a good article for the site it's on, and I wouldn't think it out of place in "USA Today" or "Popular Science," but why does a pointer to it belong on Slashdot? The newest piece of information in the article is about the "lotus effect cling", which was 'news' in 2001!
Bill Joy warned about. BASF makes a lot of the killer nanotech Bill Joy warned about better.
Time to determine whether you're still a useless, annoying twit who isn't want here.
Yep, you are!
Yeah, I've got some tantalizing nanotech...
IN MY PANTS!!!
umm.... I'm trying... nope never polished my shoes [boots] before, can't imagine polishing them again.
They're not batteries, they're just hydrogen power cells, just like we've been hearing about forever.
Also, for those who said hours is not a measure of power, you're idiots. It was placed in a strong context. read the article next time.
Read jack phelps dot net
I pity your kids with such a foul mouthed hypocritical TROLL of a father
The general reason my shoes look crusty is from scuffing NOT dirt.
The wax coating for the "Lotus-Effekt" (from the BASF Article, 9 paragraphs down, under the heading "Nanotechnology means learning from nature") will still be susceptible to this.
Me lost me cookie at the disco.
I call them "two double-a batteries"
:)
I can normally get at least a good ten hours playtime out of my Gameboy Advance with 2 AA batteries.
These consoles really are ahead of their time
... and then there were none
Recharging them isn't a simple matter of plugging them in the wall as it is now... you've got to replace the hydrogen (or other fuel, most people seem focused on hydrogen for some inane reason, even though it's hard to make and doesn't have much energy content).
;-)
True. "Recharging" a fuel cell will not just involve plugging them into the wall (unless someone makes a *MAJOR* breakthrough in both electrolysis techniques and hydrogen storage).
Most likely, it would work more like a cross between "normal" batteries, and the sort of propane tanks people use for BBQ grills. You would buy a 6-pack of methanol cartridges, roughly the size and shape of an AA battery (as a hypothetical example, of course... I have no more knowledge of future fuel-cell-form-factors than anyone else ). You'd pop them into your electricity-consuming device, just like normal batteries. The actual functional bits of the fuel cell would form a part of the electricity consuming device (or some sort of hip-pack to support legacy devices until everything takes the standard size fuel cell cartridges), and it would simply "drink" from the cartridges you plug in.
When you have a pile of empty cartridges, you'd take them back to the store for a rebate, a lot like recycling an aluminum can. Except, to reuse them, we wouldn't need to melt them down and make a whole new fuel cell, we'd simply refill them. The stores themselves might have some means of doing this, or they might just send them on to some sort of regional refilling center, but the whole process would (could, anyway) involve very little waste.
Of course, I only describe the *SENSIBLE* way to do it. More likely we'd actually build the entire functional fuel cell as a single encapsulated unit, complete with fuel *and* nasty chemistry for the catalyst; ship them across country both ways in a hideously polluting diesel 18-wheeler; and we'd make them out of a plastic that for reasons no one understands, we can't reuse, so they go to the landfill and we waste even *more* petroleum making more plastic.
But hey, what do I know. I need to stop acting so optimistic all the time.
I actually came across anarticle in wired quite a while ago. It was the typical stuff at the time, i.e. almost a "vaporware" type article, when nano and bio where the hot new prefixes and every tech magazine was scrambling to get coverage. However, there was something I found extremely interesting that is relevant here, as apparently it is one of the possible methods of implementing nano ICs...three dimensionals circut boards.. I googled a little and didnt come up with much besides this blog entry apparently from some scientist working with this stuff in an R&D program for a company in europe somewhere. Anyways, if anyone has further knowledge on the topic id be extremly interested, as I am sure others would be too.
Everytime I hear about Nanotechnology I keep thinking about the Nanolathes in Total Annihilation!
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Now imagine dropping it and losing it in the carpet!
This is when she's already down there, might as well clean his shoes. It's called multi-tasking. ;)
At the last Foresight Conference Eric Drexler expressed his frustration at the amount of hype and effort going into research and development on this psuedo nanotechnology. Everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and getting "nano" into their products.
Real nanotechnology, often called molecular nanotechnology, consists of actual manipulation of atoms into molecules and structures with useful properties, and will make most of the current claims of nano products look extremely weak. But no-one knows exactly how to do it just yet!
Lots of progress is being made on the research front, and they will get there, but anyone who tells you they have nanotechnology products available now or in the near future are talking about the weak versions of nanotechnology that have been around for thousands of years. See here for a better description of the distinction between weak and strong nanotechnology.
Really, you need to go by watt hours. This is because no battery has a totally flat discharge curve. For example, a LIon battery is rated at 3.6V but really spends the vast majority of its battery life at about 3.9V.
So if you take the rated voltage times the total amp-hours drawn you get a misleading number.
Watt-Hours. That's the way.
In 30 years they'll figure out...
:)
How to scan any object like an apple down to the atomic level and store that in a PC and then reconstruct the apple from the stored pattern. World starvation solved.
How to reclaim the matter that would normally be thrown out in the trash or go down the toilet and separate the atoms so that they could be used for the apples in above example. Some environmental problems solved.
Kind of first example but... how to create a catalog of commonly eaten organic fruits and vegeatables such that we can deallocate most of the farmland we stole from nature and give it back as wetlands and such. More environmentaland health problems solved.
How to make a pefect copy of any CD/DVD such that there is no difference from the bought version and a copy. RIAA/MPAA problem solved.
fruit juices get their rainbow of colours from tiny particles that dissolve in liquid and disappear without a trace.
Yes, it's called "Kool-Aid powder"...
We make nano-things... Nano-er?
Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
...that's because the company (the top level people I mean), as has been pointed out in another reply, is the direct descendant of freaking immoral demonic nazis. Their progeny are still the bosses and driving force. Nazism never went away, it just went "respectably" underground, in europe and into south and north america. The US version was operation paperclip among others. So, stealing other's work is chump change candy stealing to them.
So what exactly does "real" mean here? If you can arrange the shape of molecules to create particular functionality, does the technology matter? It's a bit like arguing that piece of metal A is inferior to piece of metal B because A was cast to shape in a mold and B was carved from a black by a machining centre. The real question is surely, which is best fitted for its putpose?
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Because this sort of thing is called "chemistry" or maybe "material research" but not nanotech at all.
"My Watch Battery has lasted for 4 years now, and it is only small! Could we give London 4 years of unlimited powerf ro 4 years on a watch battery? Why hasnt anyone else thought of this, i am going to patent the idea and become rich"
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we don't make explosions, we make them bigger.
The CIA is already spraying villages in Africa with government-synthesized nano. It was meant to be used as a "smart exfoliant"..Rather than run in there with an army of bulldozers and pissing everyone off, we're dropping lumberjack nano in there to clear large areas of dense forest. Why? to lay oil pipelines in West Africa under the guise of improving Africa's economy:
Buruli Busters
Since the only way to kill the nano is to deprive it of sunlight and dissolve it, theyre packing mud onto all the people who've been afflicted with it in order to kill it off.
Oh well, it was the thought that counts.
PS.. I just made all that shit up on the spot. Ha-ha, gullible, arentcha?
Bowie J. Poag
We don't make the things you buy, we make the things you buy with nanobots better...
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Welcome to the 20th century. :-p
Well, perhaps this is still a novelty in your part of the world
at airports, government buildings, elsewhere when small nanoparticles could be sprinkled about that work to consume metal and concrete.
Someday we may be asked to remove more than our shoes when we travel.
Chemists put a UV absorbing solid into suspension and then sell it as sunscreen - and its nanotechnology!? I don't think so. Since when is making a wax similar to a plant leaf wax called nanotechnology? Just because someone uses atoms and molecules and small particles to make things doesn't make it nanotechnology in my book - it makes it chemistry.