nanotech self-healing in real life!

[seeker78]

Well I don't have a video of it, but just as an example, nanotechnology is really hot these days, one of the big things about it is self-healing machines.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/su ... 416442_ITM

Apparently you can get this article for free if you have a card for your local public library here in the USA, but I've read about this kind of thing extensively myself already. Basically they are talking about having a coating on a tank that would automatically heal itself if struck by a bullet or similar object. Just like KITT on the new Knight Rider. Also they are talking about tanks being able to change color via nanotechnology.

I don't know why some of you guys are like "what is nbc's obsession with nanotechnology?". At some point in the future, you might not even buy small consumer electronics objects. You might buy the intellectual property which tells your nanotechnology printer at home how to rearrange the atoms in raw materials like carbon and silicon into a handheld computer.

Anyway here's another article that you can actually read in full for free without a library card, talking about a house being built in Greece that can automatically heal cracks such as after an earthquake.

http://www.physorg.com/news94741283.html

--Brian

[seeker78]

here's a good site for nanotechnology

http://www.nanotech-now.com/introduction.htm

btw one major near term (in my opinion) possibility from nanotechnology? room temperature superconductivity!!!!! result: electric cars with 550 horsepower electric motor with thousand mile range (no resistance = no heat loss)! magnetic levitation trains that don't require cryogenic (liquid nitrogen) cooling of the track!!

plus that silicon valley company NanoSolar, they are using a nanotech process to create an ink you can spray onto rolls of metal that results in a solar panel. Their factory in Silicon Valley will be the largest volume output solar panel factory in the world.

--Brian

[SuperchargedGS]

Here is a site about chip resistant paint or as they call it Film by using nanotechnology pretty sweet stuff.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plain ... xml&coll=2

[PHOENIXZERO]

I think I was pretty much the only one with the "what's with NBC's obsession with nanotechnology" thing and tying it in with the fact that GE (NBC's parent company) has been researching and developing nanotech for a long time. It's kind of tiring, even though I know it's something really being worked on and in theory could be used for an infinite number of things. I ended up not minding it at all with the new TV movie and have come to terms and pretty much accepted it.