nanotech
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Bring On The Replicator Already
6:15AM Jack Loftus | A gadget site Taste Test food week wouldn’t be complete without a hat tip to that fictional food-creating staple of the Star Trek universe, the replicator. More »
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Nanobot Uses Bacteria Swarm for Propulsion
12:00AM Mark Wilson | Canadian researcher Sylvain Martel has developed a ultra tiny machine that can be propelled and steered through a swarm of 3,000 bacteria. More »
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Piezoelectric Nanowires Could Power Future Gadgets Using Blood Flow
8:00AM Jack Loftus | Did that headline get your blood pumping? Good. In the future you’ll make a great battery. More »
Gadgets
Ruin Diamonds By Nano-etching Your Ugly Mug Into Them
5:00PM Elaine Chow | Have the urge to really ruin the resale value of a diamond? Here’s one way—permanently embed a hi-res grayscale photograph of yourself in it. More »
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Nanofibre Underwear Burns Fat…Literally?
1:50AM Mark Wilson | A new nanofibre underwear burns fat just by wearing it. But given the premise, it must chafe a bit. More »
Design
Sun Dry Swim Bathing Suits Use Nanotech to Dry Off in Seconds
4:40AM Adam Frucci | Sun Dry Swim makes bathing suits that dry off in seconds. Using a special nanotechnology treatment, water moves right through and off the fabric, drying off with no towel required. More »
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Nanopiezoelectric Jacket Harnesses Power From Hamster Movement
9:00AM Mark Wilson | Nanopiezoelectric research hopes to pull tiny amounts of power from minuscule movements, like breathing. Now, Georgia Tech researchers have made a nanopiezoelectric jacket for hamsters that successfully generates .1 volts of electricity. More »
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Snuggle Up to the Looming Nuclear Apocalypse with RST’s Gamma Ray-Fighting ‘Miracle Material’
11:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | If Radiation Shield Technologies’ Demron fabric pans out, maybe our dystopian, radiation-soaked future won’t be so bad after all. At the very least, we’ll be toasty–and fashionable too! RST says the fabric (available in full body suits, blankets, gloves and boots) protects against particle ionising/nuclear radiation, and shields against X-ray and low-energy Gamma emissions. The crazy thing is it does it all without any lead inserts, which next to a few inches of solid concrete are currently most effective defence against radiation poisoning. Instead, the material uses a proprietary nanotechnology to block a host of biological, chemical and radioactive sources. The material is damn heavy too; a 90 x 75cm blanket weighs approximately 27kg. [RST via Danger Room] More »
Robots
Microrobots Dance to Staged Choreography
5:50AM Mark Wilson | These robots are just the size of a hair, but up to five of them can be independently, wirelessly controlled to work (and dance) in harmony. The robots are able to move by inch-worming 10-20 billionths of a metre at once somewhere around 20,000 times a second. The result is small robots that can make their way around with relative alacrity, but still home in on precise movements. And the example video is pretty remarkable: More »
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