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Get Ready For ... Nanosoccer!
DeviceGuru writes "For the past few years, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has been sponsoring nanosoccer — a new team sport for universities with programs in micro-electro-mechanical systems. The soccer nanobots, operated by human players via remote-controlled magnetic fields and electrical signals, slide tiny discs around on a 30mm x 30mm playing field. Two demonstration competitions have already been held, and a third one is slated to take place next summer in Austria at RoboCup 2009."
... welcome our new nanobot overlords.
Now, where did I put my coffee cup?
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Real Men play nanosoccer with buckyballs!
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At first when I read the title I thought it would involve stick figures a few hundreds of carbon atoms high playing soccer with a molecule of Buckminsterfullerene. Then I started picturing how cool it would be if we could make video games that used atoms of carbon instead of pixels, and an electronic microscope for us to see the result, and what the nanoscopic versions of Pong, Space Invaders or Pac-Man would play like.
Then I read the summary.. :-(
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Programming of the new Arena begins in 2009. My user Alan assures me he will do everything he can to save my register from being bitdozed by an old MCP Eminent Domain program.
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
On the nanoscale (not this one), it will not be Bend it like Beckham. It will be Kick it like Casimir.
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Quantum Soccer will be boring. All matches end 1:1.
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Next you'll be saying that the iPod Nano is too big!
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Someone made a conversion error. The diagram shows a 1,5x2,5mm playing field, with goals 0.5x0.9mm. Maybe nanosoccer will force the US to finally adopt the metric system? :)
I hate Quantum Soccer. Every time I start to play, some know-it-all from the future takes over my body and scores all my goals for me.
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Not a problem. A soccer game in the US stands a very good chance of remaining unobserved.
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will be 200 pounds, wearing a lab coat, and dating a super model molecule ???
Soccer is boring enough. Making it so small that you can't see it with the naked eye?
Brilliant!
Can we get Ronaldo and Beckham on the fast track to miniaturization, please?
And someone do some research on pico-curling, while you're at it!
This explains the "nano football hooligans" who are constantly harrassing my cat.
I thought he had been hitting the catnip a bit hard lately until I noticed about 100 nano empty Foster's lager cans falling out of the brush after his nightly brushing and the distinct smell of eurotrash permeating his fur.
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