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Nanotech Musical Instruments

Posted by Hemos on from the don't-forget-to-rock-out dept.

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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  1. last ime it was a guitar by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    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 ;)

  2. Da da dummmm! 404! by gavinhall · · Score: 1

    Posted by LordPraetor:

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

    File not found (Error 404)

    The page you have requested is:
    /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_309000/309522.stm

    Sorry, the requested Web page no longer exists, or has been moved to another server with another address. This error message may occur for a number of reasons:

  3. Yay.. by otis+wildflower · · Score: 1

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

    ;)

  4. Trench? by Fantome · · Score: 1

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

  5. nifty but not nanotechnology by jetson123 · · Score: 1

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

  6. "Real" nanotech is bottom-up, not top-down by Chris+Worth · · Score: 1

    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.)

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  7. Broken Link? by NeoMage · · Score: 1

    I get a 404 on this one....

  8. I want a nano-synth by anal0gue · · Score: 1

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

  9. Found it at by ptomblin · · Score: 2

    here

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  10. Go here by Ermit · · Score: 2

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

    Nanotech hits high note

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  11. Pen and Tell by PhoneMonkey · · Score: 2

    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?

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  12. on chip clock generator? by wayne · · Score: 3
    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...

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