Video: Nanotechnology [Must See]

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Last thing I read about nanotech in New scientist magazine
they were testing out the artificial immune system
with yes you've guessed
mirco robots to inject into the blood stream
The new world of health care makes me shudder!!!:eek:

Small visions, grand designs
06 October 2001

NewScientist.com news service
Ian Sample

Nano technology used in medicine CARLO MONTEMAGNO is planning an invasion of your body. "We want to make machines we can insert inside cells," he says. Once they're in there, he aims to make them do things that nature simply can't, such as make drugs or generate electricity.

This isn't just loose speculation or an idle dream: it's work-in-progress at Cornell University. Montemagno has already constructed a working biomolecular motor less than one-fifth the size of a red blood cell. The key components are a protein from the bacterium Escherichia coli attached to a nickel spindle and propeller a few nanometres across. Its power comes from ATP, the biological fuel found in every living cell. The motor is just one step on the road to realising an ambitious long-term vision. Next in line is a motor that can self-assemble inside a cell. "We want to get seamless integration between machinery and living systems," Montemagno says.

Advances like these are promising to change the way medicine interacts with living biological matter. Smart implants that deliver drugs precisely when they're needed are already near to hitting the market. Also on the way are electronic devices that tell cells to make specific hormones when your body needs them, and electricity generators that assemble themselves inside a cell and then tap into the cell's own energy source for the power to run. There is no question that machines are beginning to infiltrate the biological workings of life. "Things are incredibly fast-paced at the moment," says Gary Sayler, a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "I know some researchers who are talking seriously about micro-robotic surgical techniques," he says. "With the pace of things now you can go from fiction to reality in 10 years."

Machines built on the nanoscale-using parts the size of small molecules-are likely to look very different from everyday devices. "They're not going to be small versions of what we make in the microworld- we're not going to see levers, tweezers and valves," says Mauro Ferrari, Director of biomedical engineering at Ohio State University. "They'll be similar concepts, but entirely different physics because mechanics just doesn't work the same at that scale." Whatever does end up roaming your body, it won't be anything like the miniature submarine in the movie Fantastic Voyage.
read more here:

http://www.foresight.org/nano/index.html

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/nanotechnology/mg17223114.200

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[lydia78]

Nanotech are invading!!
interesting name 'alien tech'
got the feeling we're being laughed at:mad:


North Dakota Expects Big Things From Nanotechnology
By Dan Gunderson
Minnesota Public Radio - February 11, 2004



The Red River Valley is best known for growing wheat and sugar beets. But North Dakota officials hope to produce a bumper crop of high tech jobs in the next decade. Many of those jobs will be built around a nanotechnology research initiative at North Dakota State University.

Fargo, N.D. - Nanotechnology is engineering on a molecular scale. It's about making products smaller, lighter, stronger and more precise.

The end result might be plastic that's flexible, yet strong as steel, or tiny sensors to monitor food for temperature or bacteria. The potential applications for nanotech are endless.

In the basement of a science building on the North Dakota State University campus in Fargo, Dean Grier, assistant director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, leads the way into a clean room. The clean room is designed to filter out dust particles that interfere with nanoscale manufacturing.

"The clean room was put in place for the sake of a program we are working with, a corporate partner named Alien Technology," says Grier.
The research in this room is already translating into jobs. NDSU's corporate partner, a company called Alien Technology, is building a manufacturing plant near campus. Alien will create 300 new jobs and anticipates expanding to 1,000 in 10 years.

Alien Technology is the world leader in radio frequency identification tags, known as RFID tags. The tags will soon start replacing the UPC code on consumer products. They'll hold more information and will be much easier to scan. Because they use radio frequencies, the tags can be scanned from a distance, and many can be scanned at the same time. The heart of the RFID tag is a tiny computer chip. " Some of the ones Alien is using are about .08 of a millimeter, or 800 microns, and when there's a vial full of them they look like pepper flakes," says Dean Grier.

The U.S. Department of Defense is already using the new generation of identification tags. Walmart will soon start using them.

Alien Technology expects to produce billions or trillions of the tags each year at its Fargo plant.

The company will anchor what North Dakota officials hope will be a cluster of nanotech businesses. Other companies might make the antenna for the tags, or the reader that gathers information from the RFID tags.

Alien Technology is in Fargo largely because of U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.. He steered more than $100 million in federal research contracts here in the past two years. That helped convince Alien Technology to move its production plant from California to Fargo.

" Maybe we got a little lucky. Maybe we got a lot lucky in that Senator Dorgan has helped open the door for this opportunity for us," says Phil Boudjouk, vice president for Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer at NDSU.

Boudjouk says North Dakota has an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an emerging industry.

"My approach right now, not that it wouldn't change, is to go for the low-hanging fruit. That is, you need to build up your track record and show you can do these things," says Boudjouk. "So, we wouldn't be swinging for the fences, so to speak. We'd be going for singles and doubles. And we know we have these."

NDSU is following a model that's been successful according to Phil Boudjouk. When research universities create useful technology, private industry will come calling.

The Red River Valley has a legitimate shot at becoming an attractive place for nanotech companies, according to Minneapolis-based nanotechnology consultant Jack Uldrich. The federal government is pouring money into nanotech research, says Uldrich, and North Dakota stands to benefit from Sen. Dorgan's ability to steer some of that money to his home state.

Holy Crap!:eek:

more here:

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/research/article.php?article_number=13

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how 'bout injecting some nano robots?

"nanochip"

"same technology ...let us bring synthetic sentients to life"
"we are creating avatar for Subrine... self modifying, continually evolvin synthetic organism"
"Subrina is no longer Subrina!"
"process of synthetic evolution...."

yaiks!

we all gonna turn into robots


Nanotechnology - Age of Convergence
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5044449281218732902&q=Nanotechnology&total=756&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3

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