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Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes
neutron_p writes "Scientists at The UTD NanoTech Institute achieved a major technological breakthrough by spinning multi-walled carbon nanotube yarns that are strong, tough and extremely flexible, and are both electrically and thermally conducting. Among other things, the futuristic yarns could result in 'smart' clothing that stores electricity, provides ballistic protection and adjusts temperature and porosity to provide greater comfort. The breakthrough, made possible by, in effect, downsizing ancient technology used for wool and cotton spinning to the nanoscale, resulted from an unusual collaboration involving nanotechnologists and experts in wool spinning."
Does this mean that grandma can now knit me a bullet proof vest?
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
and now they come out with this. I knew I should have waited.
Sweet informative mod.
"Are you wearing one of them new carbon-acrylic dockers? Or are you just happy to see me?" :)
Insert romantic notions of nanotechnologists and wool clothiers bartering their skills in the art. At an SCA meeting.
See? I can spin a pretty good one.
I read that as:
Futuristic 'Smart' Yams From Carbon Nanotubes
Lets see it will be silver, one piece and one size fits all.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
the chastity thong, a secure impenetrable and fashionable undergarment for young ladies concerned about fashion, and fathers concerned about young men.
from the typing-too-fast dept
...does it repel stains?
I first read this as "Futuristic Smart Yams from Carbon Nanotubes." If ever any overlords ever needed welcoming, it'd be Smart Yam overlords. I wouldn't have to be the one to explain about Thanksgivings past. Hopefully they wouldn't demand to eat one human for every yam ever consumed...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I, for one, welcome our new itchy sweater-wearing overlords.
"The breakthrough, made possible by, in effect, downsizing ancient technology used for wool and cotton spinning to the nanoscale, resulted from an unusual collaboration involving nanotechnologists and experts in wool spinning."
Now just think what the car makers can learn from the buggy whip people?
Is this "smart" yarn smart enough to stop people from wearing lime green paisley sweaters?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Comes textile-punk, to be featured in Neal Stephenson's upcoming book, Sweater Crash. Meanwhile, the Wachowski brothers have a new movie in the making about about a futuristic society where all of humanity is entrapped in a large, controlling single piece of nano-fabric. Of course, this was all done 50 years ago in an Asimov book.
*is run over by rotten tomatoes*
yeah, cause i know my wife has to be careful not to get any nasty black stuff on her from her diamond ring....
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
I hope it comes with a grounding strap.
I wonder if this would be a good material for microsurgical sutures.
And now, we can construct the world's smallest violin for Ron Artest.
sigs, as if you care.
Use them for wool.
I can see it now: you could walk up to any woman you see, clap twice, and turn her sweater into a bikini top.
Cantankerous old coot since 1957.
So this is what the Incredable's suits are made out of... isn't it daaaaaahling!
It's called elastic, and it's brother spandex. One used by old ladies to "change the cut" as waistlines expand, the other used by young ladies to "change the cut" to achieve the tightest fit possible.
Pray god you never see the two get mixed up.
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
Okay, if the handkerchief's in the left pocket s/he's AC, and the right pocket for DC...or was it the other way around?...
[BZZZAP!]
Damn.
Life is like surrealism: if you have to have it explained to you, you can't afford it.
If yams can cook, so can stew.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
See: Charles Babbage
Fortunately, most metals are in fact, conductors. (Not that he used it in that way though...)
This is not a sig.
Great, so we won't get lung cancer, only black lung disease. I think I will just keep with smoking my cigarettes while working in a coal mine thank you.
Rampant Ninja related crimes these days...Whitehouse is not the exception
"The authors of the article ... state that the small yarn diameters ... could eliminate the uncomfortable rigidity sometimes found for metal wire"
At last, a new, more comfortable WonderBra! And no tricky clasps for the men...
...because these tinfoil underpants are getting seriously uncomfortable!
"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."