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Nanoguitar - The Next Musical Generation
Sewerpickle writes "Scientists ... have sucessfully made a guitar 10 millionths of a meter big (size of a red blood cell). And based loosely on the Fender Stratocaster. It actually can be played at notes around 10MHz." Let's see. Hemos is a nanotech buff and Cmdr Taco is learning to play guitar. Seems to me the Geek Compound ought to have one of these around.
We have finally found a use for that nano-Yngwie- Malmsteen we created back in 88... now if only we could find a left handed nano-guitar, nano-Jimi would be able to rock a few nano-bars of nano-purple-haze.
-- "the revolution will not be televised" -Gil Scott-Heron
(Begin annoying Guitar Center commercial voice)
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Hmmm. Doesn't look much like strat to me. And if it's a guitar (it does have six strings), why does it have bass pickups? It's definitely not a Fender head, the top horns look like a BC Rich, and for some reason they made it left handed...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
these around.
Perhaps they have a few million around but don't know it.
Perhaps I do, too. (I WONDERED why things were getting so dusty...)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Looks to me like a guitar-shaped carving. I don't see working tuning machines, implying that the strings are not under tension but are simply carved there, and would not vibrate. Still, pretty cool looking though. If only the people who did these things knew to produce 1024x768 jpegs of them for desktop pictures! :)
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Are any flea circuses going to start a spinoff
from this vital new technology?
Look at the press release. It's from July, 1997. I've seen this picture in books. Why is it on Slashdot? I could understand some breakthrough, but this site is "News for Nerds," and this story isn't news.
I was sitting here with my laptop, jaw comfortably attached to my skull, then this strange web page popped up with a black and white picture of a guitar.
Then I saw how large the guitar was(two microns), and there went the jaw.
The IBM-Written-In-Atoms was cool. The fact that this guitar is That Small, That Accurate, and That *PLAYABLE* is mind boggling. I've never seen a more visceral sign that Nanotech is real than this.
Wow. Just...wow.
Yours Truly,
Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
http://www.doxpara.com
How many nano-rock stars can you fit on the head of a pin?
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan
"And he could play the guitar like ringing a cell..."
Sorry.
As a musician, I must strongly protest this development.
This will allow pub landlords to compress the band into
smaller and smaller spaces until we'll end up playing in
a cigarette packet at the end of the bar. As an added
effect, the music will be beyond the hearing range of most if not
all of the punters. (although the drummer will still be too loud, of course.)
Harrumph.
dave
Lets clear this up... This guitar was made in 1997 by Dustin Carr at Cornell University. It was _not_ I repeat _not_ made by the american institute of physics, who just happens to have the press release on there home page. I happen to work in the same building as the Craighead group (of which Dustin was a member at the time) and can swear to the fact that it was created by him, and not the AIP. In fact, I think this was on slashdot way back when...
...where could one find a pick small enough to play it?
-AP
this tiny guitar is a playful example of nanotechnology, in which scientists are building machines and structures on the scale of billionths of a meter to perform useful technological functions
Yeah sure, extremely useful if you happen to be a member of the highly acclaimed metal band Nanobotica from Planet Zorp!
Nice promo stunt, you |33+ d00dz!
Well, right now the nanotech people can't make anything useful. They expect to some day, but right now they're learning how to move atoms around into structures. If you can't make something useful, at least make something cool.
That's why Logo is a neat language to learn about programming. When you learned to program in Basic you probably wrote a bunch of useless trivial prgrams that printed out a table of squares or something like that. On the other hand, in Logo you end up with a neat star shape or spiral on your screen, useless in itself, but you're learning about recursion and iteration, and maybe some geometry too.
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That was announced in July '97 and the guitar was made with what is now an old manufacturing process, limited to 3 layers of silicon.
:v)
The latest red-hot technology is 5-layer silicon, which allows the manufacture of far more complex machines - including machines which can errect themselves into structures out of the plane of the manufactured silicon.
HP are now making 2 nanometer wires - much smaller than the 40nm wires used on the nanoguitar - to join up their molecular logic gates with. In about 8 years time the first "molecular chips" will start to appear, and my guess is that the next 5 will see the advent of the first nanotech assembler. (see http://www.foresight.org)
Vik