Nanotech Musical Instruments

redbeard writes "BBC News has an article on the world's smallest harp. I guess the next step is a full Nanotech orchestra. . . " That, and the machines that are going to make me immortal, and able to survive at the bottom of the Marinas Trench.

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umm

[Anonymous Coward]

but you can't hear it, so.. well, not much point to it, is there..?

[mumbles something about trees falling in the forest, and does it make a sound]

Immortal?

[Anonymous Coward]

So how's nanotech gonna make you immortal? Maybe to repair the damage from cryonic freezing?

Immortal?

[Anonymous Coward]

They will destroy the fabric of space time which will bring about the end of the universe and thus the end of time. Since you will live to the end of time, you will be immortal.

one machine that will let us live at the bottom

[Anonymous Coward]

one machine that will let us live at the bottom of the ocean is a big fat t1 line strung all the way down to the bottom.

i wouldn't be able to live without!

-anonymous coward

it'd be nice if...

[Anonymous Coward]

they paint it green :)

but then again that would be a few hundred times bigger.

fellas, that's why scientists are scientists, ok? 90% of the things they do don't count (at least for the present time.)

Ummm Ok...Yeah..

[Ellis-D]

WHF.. I play guitar and I see no real point in this, execpt the fact that it seems to of been a big waste of money and time.. How am I supposed to play it, second if I could play it, no one could here it.. It's like having a house made of mash potatoes.. Yeah it looks cool, but you wouldn't be able to live in it..

last ime it was a guitar

[gavinhall]

Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:

I remember about a year ago it was done with a guitar. They would play it by microwave resonance. Couldn't do much with one string tho, except your favorite Green Day song maybe ;)

Da da dummmm! 404!

[gavinhall]

Posted by LordPraetor:

Whoops... that's what you get for not telling anybody until the last minute!

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Yay..

[otis wildflower]

... Talk about stupid tech tricks.. Like we need smaller flea circuses, though if they played dixieland jazz it wouldn't be so bad...

;)

Trench?

[Fantome]

Why the bottom of the ocean, Hemos? Getting a few too many mob connections?

nifty but not nanotechnology

[jetson123]

Those are some nifty micromachines, but it isn't nanotechnology.

"Real" nanotech is bottom-up, not top-down

[Chris Worth]

The nanoharp and other toys are great demos of precision machining, but "real" nanotech is a bit different.
It's about snapping together atoms into molecular machine parts, assembling them from the bottom up - not grinding away at vast clumps of atoms from the top down until you get something the right shape.
The difference is important: think how different (and superior) digital is to analog for computing. Bottom-up molecular precision is digital; the nanoharp is analog.
Nanotech guru Eric Drexler has two books online at http://www.foresight.org ; Linux types will get more out of "Engines of Creation" than "Unbounding the future." (Disclaimer: I'm a nanotech junkie and member of Foresight, and can say it's a VERY worthwhile society to belong to.)

Broken Link?

[NeoMage]

I get a 404 on this one....

I want a nano-synth

[anal0gue]

where's the fat chunky sound of nanobots jivin with dna strands.. analogue meets digital in a happy mix.

Found it at

[ptomblin]

here

Go here

[Ermit]

Here's the correct link for those of you who care.

Nanotech hits high note

Pen and Tell

[PhoneMonkey]

Don't forget to check out the world's smallest pen too.

i also saw a device (can't remember the URL which is a nano lock that can be used to actually, physically lock a CPU so it can't be used. Anyone else see anything like this also?

"Responsibility for my career? I'm just a freakin' phone monkey!"

on chip clock generator?

[wayne]

I wonder it this type of technique could be used to generate clock sources on a computer chip?

Distributing clock signals is one of the hard problems with modern processors and cost a lot of chip realestate. By using something like this, it is possible that people could build faster and smaller CPU.s

This could also make overclocking a thing of the past, real quick like.

Hmmm...