Possible uses for this product include advertising, entertainment facilities, design prototyping, teleconferencing etc.
Having been about the radiology dept of the local hospital and having a few visits to the "turn your head and cough" clinic, thanks to a broken clavicle, I can think of a pretty good use. How about
those ct-scans? Or is it really just 2D projected in 3D? Seems true 3D would appear muddy as you'd be seeing through translucent objects, unless they've come up with a way to make air opaque.
Obviously the applications for such a product are endless. Most importantly it may convince my wife to finally allow the purchase of the Brook Burke Swimsuit calendar for testing purposes!
Yesh! The most obvious! pr0n!
Dear Santa, I wanna Heliodisplay, a 3D camera, and Natalie Pr0tman for Christmas...
Which happens every year at the university level anyway, where a new 'edition' comes out every year with one or two pages slightly modified, but you have to buy the new one for $150 since the questions and homework study in the appendix are completely different. No, I'm not bitter that the fall semester is coming or anything.
In the event they are giving away old text books, please let me know. I'll happily stand in line, with my folding chair.
I've shelled some really big zorkmids for astronomy books and even one a couple years out of date is welcome on my shelf.
Seriously, would these people be battling it out for 4 year old PC laptops at $50 a pop? I think we just threw a few cartons of them away. Too damn slow with windows running on them.
I thought there was a problem with the space-time continuum.
Nope, it's a problem with living in Russia. You think he's crazy? He's nice and safe up there, much better than being on the ground with all those thugs running around the country.
Actually, just like the current trend indicates, reduced size of technology leads to great choice and options. We'll see tiny computers and large computers, cell phones and supercomputers. You can't say "they'll likely stay the same size" since we already have computers that vary greatly in size; that trend will continue.
The other trend, I don't see many banter about other than the occasional reference to Bloat is that software will continue to exhaust whatever performance gains new circuit technology achieves.
100 times as small means 100 times less necessary current per transistor. The question is, how much current can one of these things handle?
It's also Carbon, something regularly used for resistors (prior to film resistors.) Seems resistance and heat will be some kind of issue.
As to "how do you solder them," that's just stupid. You don't solder them, any more than you solder 100 million transistors in a Pentium.
Pentium and other chips are etched from an existing sandwich, IIRC, we're talking about growing a "chip" rather than chiseling the everything from a section of a wafer which doesn't look like a Pentium.
Hey, you could have your own law:
Quebec's law: "Each time some expert's saying that Moore's Law is about to hit a barrier,
there is something going on like those promising nanotubes."
Sorta like Slapout's Corollary: "Anytime something can go wrong, no matter how likely, something will eventually come along and make it actually work, defying all odds and logic."
i think metamoderation works something like that...
the nanotransistors are just a few hundred millionths of a meter in size -roughly 100 times smaller than the components used in today's microprocessors.
We're going to have a devil of a time soldering these things, not to mention fitting them with heatsinks...
Bandaru says the main remaining worry is how to manufacture complex nanotube-based circuitry reliably. Nonetheless, he is optimistic about the future of nanotube-based electronics.
"One must remember that for the Pentium chips which now have over 500 million transistors, the progenitor was a simple integrated circuit with two transistors in 1958," Bandaru says. "We are probably at the same stage with Y-junctions and the future looks good."
37 years? I can't wait that long! Where's the Fast Forward on these things?
1337 c0d3rz w1th m4dd3 5ski11z, t-shirts and jeans, cold pizza for breakfast, drive a 84 Celica with the back seat crammed with McD's/Jack in the Box/Burger King bags, work from 10 AM to 3 AM and drink massive quantities of Coffee and/or Redbull/Rockstar/etc., live with parents or rent a dark and sinister fortress of squalitude, wonder what you'd do on a date assuming you ever had time for/got one and have a maxed out overclocked PC at home with liquid nitrogen cooling.
OR
BSCS, suit and tie, eat to stay fit, drive a recent Volvo you wash once a week, 8 to 5, spring water from a bottle, live in a 3 bedroom house or condo, in a stable relationship, only enough personal technology to get you through personal business.
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It was the third of september That day I'll always remember, yes I will 'cause that was the day that my daddy died... whoops, wrong lyric!"
How about Star Wars star Natalie Pr0tman, she's bald now (or at least fuzzy.)
What with dumping all the old technology for a brave new approach, they'll undoubtably revisit old mistakes.
it'll be a 63.999999999999976581 bit processor
Having been about the radiology dept of the local hospital and having a few visits to the "turn your head and cough" clinic, thanks to a broken clavicle, I can think of a pretty good use. How about those ct-scans? Or is it really just 2D projected in 3D? Seems true 3D would appear muddy as you'd be seeing through translucent objects, unless they've come up with a way to make air opaque.
Obviously the applications for such a product are endless. Most importantly it may convince my wife to finally allow the purchase of the Brook Burke Swimsuit calendar for testing purposes!
Yesh! The most obvious! pr0n!
Dear Santa, I wanna Heliodisplay, a 3D camera, and Natalie Pr0tman for Christmas...
In the event they are giving away old text books, please let me know. I'll happily stand in line, with my folding chair.
I've shelled some really big zorkmids for astronomy books and even one a couple years out of date is welcome on my shelf.
You think that's mind blowing, imagine all the astrologers having to recalibrate. It's like Y2K all over again!
certainly explains why I feel out of shape some mornings...
Just be careful of the words "throw away", "give away" and "books" in Henico County, VA
"Mine, mine! Geroff! Mine!"
Most digital cameras are current hungry, the necessary chemistry to take place to produce that current is likely constrained by the cold.
IIRC the wisdom of several years ago was that you could extend the shelflife of batteries by keeping them in your fridge.
I suppose that depends upon the crystaline structure of the liquid as a solid. Might also damage a flexible lens, no?
BTW, I checked, all the links in the original article still work.
Hm, must be a Karl Rove plant.
Or else it's just another victory in the GWOT?
Meanwhile, in an office in the Whitehouse...
"Heh, heh, heh, Mission accomplished."
This just in, CNN staff have been smoking 20 packs of cigaretts a day to see if it does indeed cause cancer.
duh...
Just goes to show Apples have a-peel.
Seriously, would these people be battling it out for 4 year old PC laptops at $50 a pop? I think we just threw a few cartons of them away. Too damn slow with windows running on them.
Nope, it's a problem with living in Russia. You think he's crazy? He's nice and safe up there, much better than being on the ground with all those thugs running around the country.
ISS Sweet ISS
"I'm going to orbit Disneyland!"
The other trend, I don't see many banter about other than the occasional reference to Bloat is that software will continue to exhaust whatever performance gains new circuit technology achieves.
Intel have their hands full keeping up with and competing with AMD on existing technology.
I predict AMD will perfect the pod before Intel, and then we'll all be pwn3d as the carbon nanotubes replace our fleshy brains.
just call me Barney Google
Apologies. The font on my LCD made the 5 look like a 6 and I was thinking that about fit in the time frame of early integrated circuits.
It's also Carbon, something regularly used for resistors (prior to film resistors.) Seems resistance and heat will be some kind of issue.
As to "how do you solder them," that's just stupid. You don't solder them, any more than you solder 100 million transistors in a Pentium.
Pentium and other chips are etched from an existing sandwich, IIRC, we're talking about growing a "chip" rather than chiseling the everything from a section of a wafer which doesn't look like a Pentium.
i think metamoderation works something like that...
We're going to have a devil of a time soldering these things, not to mention fitting them with heatsinks...
Now we have some idea what keeps SCO going...
McBride wouldn't have to pay a light bill for the past couple years, further makes money exporting power to the grid.
And to think I was worried before about having a uroscopy...
should we call it bladdery acid?