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The Nanotech Nose: Towards A Smaller Future

Farrax writes "One of the first steps to nanotechnology, either strong or weak, is the ability to even talk about materials on this scale with precision. Thursday, with the successful test of a nano-tech "nose," that step was achieved: weight fluctuations of 5.5 femtograms were detected on a bar of gold. The dream of nano-technology moves forward: maybe we'll see it by 2020 after all."

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  1. We won't see it by 2020 .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    unless we use a microscope...

  2. we need to get one by ThePeices · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need to get my hands on one of these sensors...itl finally prove that we can smell CowboyNeal from across the atlantic.

  3. That's it. We're all doomed ... by pantropik · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... last one to turn to grey goo please turn off the lights.

    Or green goo.

    Too tired to (attempt to) make any more jokes. Check here and I'm sure you can come up with some of your own.

  4. One of my nanotech dreams. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I imagined from the moment I heard of nanotech, that we could have devices implanted in ourselves that, when we're in the sun, could bring chlorophyll to the surface of our skins and create food from it. That way we can all use up CO2 from the atmosphere to offset the CO2 emissions of industry, and help industry along all the more!

    We get the benefits of industry, with free food, and a way to combat one of the current downfalls of industry!

    My other nanotech dream is that nanobots in my body could change me into a lesbian and I could go have hot lesbian sex each night, but I don't mention that one much

  5. Feeling paranoid? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Government rewiring of our brains some day? Can't be too far in the future.

    It's probably already happened. Best fit your foil helmet V3.1

  6. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can it measure how much I care? Maybe once it can detect one trillionth of a billionth of care..

  7. They should ask my girlfriend for help by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    She can detect weight fluctuations of 2.5 femtograms!

  8. Nanotech - size matters by wass · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ya gotta love nanotech. It's the only competition where the goal is to exclaim "Mine is smaller than yours!"

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