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Gaming the Future: The Book!

Month: August 2000

Make what you need, when & where you need it

from the not-here-…-make-it-over-there!-geez dept.
bbrelin writes of a Time magazine article on the new low-volume, "better, kinder, cleaner", digital manufacturing at the point of consumption: "While this isn't strictly nanotechnology, the ramifications are similar. It reminds me of the the scenario in Unbounding the Future regarding the Mom and Pop manufacturing facility…"

Nanomanufacturing: commercialized nanopositioning

from the where-am-I?-oh-yeah dept.
Senior Associate GinaMiller brings to our attention the firm Nanowave, which aims to help make nanomanufacturing become practical by commercializing nanopositioning. It's true: if you want to build at the nanometer level, you need to know where the heck you are, exactly. See the startup's classic history in Mass High Tech.

Nanotube Bearings at UC Berkeley: Update

from the free-info-for-the-rest-of-us dept.
For those of us who don't have easy access to the journal Science online, RobVirkus writes "The Zettl group at UC Berkeley published work on nanotube based bearings and springs which may have application to Stewart platforms. The work is published in Science but a press release is available here"

Low-Friction Nanoscale Linear Bearings

from the keep-them-bearings-rollin' dept.
Senior Associate and IMM researcher Josh Hall writes "An article in the current Science, Low-Friction Nanoscale Linear Bearing Realized from Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes, by John Cumings and A. Zettl, describes recent work that will be very important in terms of building nanomachines with sliding parts. If you have an online subscription, read it here. (for those with access to a paper copy, the ref is Science 289, 602 (2000) )

There is a "perspective" entitled "NANOTECHNOLOGY: Beyond Gedanken Experiments" by Laszlo Forró, which mentions that the technique was foreseen by Drexler and references Nanosystems. It's here.

It's good to see this on the heels of stories such as this cover story in Science News about "stiction", the bane of MEMS microdevices."

Freitas wins Drexler Prize … in year 2050

from the that's-great-but-is-there-any-cash-involved? dept.
The official journal of the Transplantation Society (Graft) has published a "future issue" set in the year 2050, in which Senior Associate Rob Freitas gives a keynote address accepting the 31st Annual Drexler Prize in Nanomedicine on the topic "Respirocytes in Nanomedicine: The Remarkable Story of One of the First Medical Nanorobots Ever Conceived". (Artwork contributed by Senior Associates Forrest Bishop and Philip Van Nedervelde.) Congratulations in advance, Rob!

NSF Program Announcement for Nanotechnology

from the let's-get-some-of-our-tax-money-back dept.
Senior Associate WesDuCharme writes "The National Nanotechnology Initiative seems to be coming onstream. The NSF just put out program announcement regarding nanotechnology They are interested in proposals on six "research themes". The first five are highly technical, but as a research psychologist I find the sixth one most interesting: Societal and Education Implications of Scientific and Technological Advances on the Nanoscale. Read More for details and an offer to collaborate.

Nanotube nonvolatile addressable memory

from the snap-to-it dept.
Researchers have used the Van der Waals attraction between two closely spaced perpendicular nanotubes to give the pair two stable mechanical states. In one state the tubes are well separated and unstrained, while in the second they are in close contact and the attraction between them bends the upper tube, holding them together. They were able to both switch between the states and sense them electronically. They calculate potential switching rates of 100GHz and densities of 1012 bits/cm2

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