Nano Tech Soon to be Biological Tech!

It's interesting how today we have taken huge strides in the advances of Nano technology. But, will the integration of human and technology prove to be a bumpy ride? Watch this clip from the history channel.

Smaller Machine helps make smaller measurements

As technology continues to shrink in size there ever increasingly needs to be a way to accurately measure said technology. Such a feat was thought to be extremely difficult until a entrepreneur couple from South Carolina developed a machine that does just that. The machine itself is excessively small and allows scientist to accuratly measure in the nanoscale. The full actricle can be found here:
http://www.ncnanotechnology.com/public/features/small-technology.asp

Nanotechnology Helps treat cancer

Nanoparticles are being use in exciting and new ways to treat cancers.

One way using "Gold" Nanoparticles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyhxRIvw_cY&feature=related

And another method using Magnetic Nanopaticles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUh1gHG2jns&feature=related

Nanotechnology helps doctors identify and treat Disease

Another use that is being developed for nanotechnology is the ability for doctors to actually make cures on the genetic level which will enable them to identify and treat a variety of diseases.
Full video found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqQxuVncmc

Medicine gets smaller

The practices of medical professionals today are based on the understanding that there is beings so small they are invisible to the eye that effect all medical procedures. If this medical research of the smaller world didn't exist things like a common infection, virus's, bacteria, cancer, an understanding of the cell, would have never been discovered. Since this research of small has begun people live longer and longer. It makes the mortality rate of patients in surgery better by minimizing the risk of infection. This is because of the process of sterilization and the understanding of the small.

Nanomedicine

Another piece on our ongoing topic of nanotechnology, this time about medicine and its future. Imagine being able to head to your doctors office and receive and inject of nano-machines that are able to programmed to repair an unthinkable amount of ailments. Cancer, AIDS, paralysis and even the common cold would be a thing of the past. This microscope cell-like robot would be able to navigate our blood stream and destroy any invading cells, or repair any damaged organ. This is what we have to look forward to within the future of medicine. Below is a very outdated video that still, to this day, shows a great example of what we could achieve with this technology.



This is a great resource for a lot of nanomedicine articles and research.

Nano Fabric

With the summer months approaching I thought I'd put up an item relating to nanotechnology, since that has been a recent them here. A company by the name of Solestrom has created a line of swimwear that is coated with a nano-layer of water resistant around each fiber in the suit. This allows water to actually pass through the fabric, instead of being absorbed by it.

Here is a short example of the material in action:


The original article from the Telegraph.co.uk website.

The shrinking of power sources

Since the Industrial revolution power sources and feul have been shrinking. Before the industrial revolution, power sources were local like peat moss and fire wood but with the dawn of industry,power became a product more distant from the consumer. Large power grids were created to keep with the widening market of electricity. These grids were often powered by coal burning facilities and some still are. The power was made in one place and distributed regionally.This system involves the transportation of the energy across long streaches of land leaving power lined scares on our nation. This is a changing trend.With the new advances in local energy sources like solar, wind, and even high effiecency wood burning and coal devices, power is again becoming more locallized. This is because of some advances in the size of energy yielding tools such as solar panals, geothermal wells and wind turbines for residential units.This ctreates a power plant in a local setting from renuable energies instead of a neighborhood being supplied by a regional fossel feul plant.This is a bit from a writer named Poblo Paster:

From a previous AskPablo: If every household in the US replaced one incandescent bulb with a CFL we could turn off 1 coal-fired power plant, assuming 3 hours per day of use. How did I get this? Well, if you replace one 60W incandescent bulb with a 23W CFL you are saving 37W. 37W x 3 hours/day x 365 days/year x 110,000,000 households in the US = 4,456,650,000 kWh/year, or $668,497,500! A typical coal fired power plant generates 4,000,000MWh/year. To find out how many power plants we could eliminate we simply divide the energy savings by the energy generated by a power plant (4,456,650MWh / 4,000,000MWh). This shows that, if every household in the US replaced one incandescent bulb with a CFL, we could turn off 1 coal-fired power plant.

Imagine what we could do if we all produced energy!

Nanomanufacturing

Another very interesting video on nanotech! This short video explains what nanomanufacturing has already done for us, what it is, and a brief future of it .

Nano bot tech illistrated in 3D

This is a model of how a nanobot will be used once injected into living beings. It just goes to show how much technology has to shrink.

Concept Nanotechnology Phone

Here is a very interesting video displaying the capabilities of a concept phone from Nokia and the University of Cambridge. The video's quality it a little annoying to watch, but it is very interesting - I wholeheartedly suggest watching it!

Parking System

Now for something a little random...



Okay, I know this technically does not have anything to do with shrinking technology (well, I could argue it, but it would be a pretty big stretch), but I thought this was really interesting and a great idea.

Music tech

Are you going to have a room packed full of instruments? Or, a laptop with all that and more? The computer program (and ones like it) are out now... but it's only going to get better!

Nanotech Consumer Products

Big Questions on Tiny, Tiny Technology from August 9, 2008, brings up issues on consumer based nanotechnology and the regulations that need to be implemented for the good of public. These nanotech items inclued smellresistant socks, costmetics, and sporting goods. It explains the unstable nature of nanomaterials and the need for these regulations that include inventorying the materials and public awareness of health information on these nanotech products.

The Future of a Tiny Technology

Looking Ahead to a Tiny Technology
This article from August 15, 2008 explains what a shrinking technology has in store for the future. It talks about storage space, football playing nanobots, and nanobots in the commercial world.

Webcast - Synthetic Biology: The Next Biotech Revolution Is Brewin

In reference to nanotechnology, a webcast will air tomorrow explaining how advances in biotechnology will create challenges for the U.S. government. You can read about the webcast here. The site also has general information on synthetic biology, government issues, and ethics.

If you want to view the webcast, go here tomorrow at 12:30.

Nanotech Advancement

The article Big Step in Tiny Technology from August 27, 2008, explains Scottish researcher's from the University of St. Andrews new advancement in nanotechnology. Basically, they have found a better way to arrange molecules that has great benefits when working on such a small scale (about 1/10,000 the diameter of a human hair with this technology). This new area of technology is still in the beginning stages, but Dr. Manfred Buck, of the University's School of Chemistry explains that this technology may be useful in the development of "nanomachines", which are "molecular devices used to transport and manipulate molecules and nanometer sized objects."

Nanotechproject.org

Nanotechnology is the ultimate of a tiny tech world. Nanotechproject.org give an Introduction to Nanotechnology, reviews news, publications, and events, documents many other aspects of the nano-world.

Arguably the most interesting aspect of their site is their inventory of all things nanotech. Broken down into categories, like consumer products and medicine, one can browse a large array of products that use nanotechnology. They also explain the criteria for an item to be included in their list, track changes, and display a statistical analysis that allows one to see the changes in nanotech use in certain categorizes over the past few years.

Starlight

Computer Hacking

video games and new tech

Digital Video

Digital cameras has greatly benefited video. It has allowed the average person to easily tape anything with out worrying about film. Thanks to our shrinking technology, we can easily fit a significant about of time of high quality video on a small memory card in the camera.

first wrist calculator

Litronix, primarily an LED supplier to the other vintage digital watchbrands including the first Hamilton-Pulsar digital watches. Featured here are these two experimental prototype calculator concept watches Litronix was considering for development.
But what makes this strange watch special is the unusual feature of sliders instead of buttons. Likely an attempt to improve the data entry from Multiple miniture buttons to a more tactile sliding mechanism. The sliders move over a commutator which is a pc board segment. I assume you move them to the desired number and press down for selection but it sure seems like a waste of time. I guess that's why it never went into production, huh? Maybe someone can let me know if this slider function has ever been developed into another product from that time.

Smaller is a Big Thing

A cute video explaining Intel's tiny transistor:

Smaller is a Big Thing The Smallinator...Haf learns about a big change in small from Intel. A transistor is the fundamental building block of all modern electronics...so how can we make them smaller? Artist Geoff McFetridge takes a friendly frolic through the scientific and engineering wonders of the ever shrinking, ever better transistor that Intel is now creating that measures 45 nanometers. 400 of them can fit inside the size of a human red blood cell.

Tiny Camera Module

Shrinking Camera Sizes to Match Shrinking Phones

In his article from Jun 15, 2007, Cheng Hung writes about Tessera Technologies Inc’s camera lens. As cell phones loose their bulk, this lens, at a fraction of the size of conventional camera modules, will help create a better, smaller, camera phone.

IBM's Chip

IBM Chip to Let You Download an HD Movie in One Second

Here is another article about IBM's chips, published on April 2 2007 at Gizmodo. They talk about fiber optics and the practicality of it. It is interesting to look at how much progress was made in less than two years.

IBM's Chip Timeline

Breakthroughs in Chips Over a Decade

IBM shows a time line of their breakthroughs in chips over the past decade. Technology has changed considerably over these 10 short years. Breakthroughs like these are what contribute to a smaller, more efficients technology.

USB Sticks of the Near Past

USB sticks are a great example of how technology is shrinking down near to a point of nonexistence. Not only is the physical size shrinking, but so is the price realtive to storage space.

As explained by the article
Netac Technology OnlyDisk U220: World's Smallest Secure USB Drive? from July 12, 2006, the smallest USB stick was Netac Technology's OnlyDisk U220. It weighed in at half an ounce and measured in at 2 inches tall. The highest capacity was 2GB, which cost $92.

As of March 16, 2007 Kingmax Super Stick USB won the title of producing the smallest USB stick, showed in the article World’s Smallest USB Stick – This Week. This one is only 34mm x 12.4mm x 2.2mm and comes with up to 4GB of storage.

Now, the question is, where can we go from there? Size is no longer an issue when it come it small storage spaces? Will we get to the point where we have full hard drive s the size of a nickel? And what would that do for technology and society?

Fractal Geometry Explained

fractal geometry beautiful math

Fractal Geometry: The Past or the Future

Technology and science is at the forefront of the future economy. This is proven in the past. Benoit Mandlebrot, a French mathematician, created a theory of geometry in the labs of IBM in the fifties. Fractal geometry was born in the advanced calculations of computers. Without this technology, Mandlebrot would have never discovered these mathematical patterns. He was accomplished in engineering, language,aeronautics, and economics. In the field of economics, he first applied his theories. He successfully predicted the cotton market by identifying patterns and similarities in the past market.He found symmetry in a very elusive economy by identifying self similarities over time.This gave his theories weight in intellectual societies of the day and spurred him further into his studies.He releases The Fractal Geometry in Nature in 1983, a piece that applies fractal geometry to nature i.e trees, mountains, hills, a leaf, a carrot.Mandlebrot wrote,"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." This use of FG made the measurement of natural shapes possible. Computers make fractional geometry possible. The application of this math has no limits. It is sure to be one of the many new tools which will define the technology of the future.Not only is this theory important to society and science but its beautiful as well. Its more than I could ever write.

The Printing Press: Internet of the Sixteenth Century

In 1444 Johannes Gutenberg,a German, invented the printing press.Before this books were written by dictation, meaning one man read the book while a group of individuals, mostly clergy write it freehand. This was a long and arduous process. Some books taking years to write out.Books were rare items used only by the clergy and the aristocracy. The wealthy would travel years to just read one book. The average person was illiterate and could neither read a book or afford one. The sharing of information was minimal in this age and science was non existent. This is reflected in the name of the age. The Dark ages. With the creation of the printing press came an explosion of information sharing.
This sharing had huge impacts on every part of society from art to math to religion. The Reformation lead by Martin Luther, was made possible by the translation and distribution of mass printed vernacular Bibles. It also sparked the enlightenment movement by educating the average person. This information sharing raised the intelligence of the population and brought on the wave of inventions and ideas throughout the next two hundred years.The numbers speak for themselves. By 1499, there is fifteen million books in twenty five hundred cities across Europe. Books were everywhere for everyone. This is very similar to the Internet revolution happening today. The overflow of information makes things more accessible every day. Smaller. Faster. Just like the printing press, the Internet is making information available to everyone,thereby empowering the individual. Why buy a book when you can download one?Free information with no printing press and no paper. The future looks good.

The History of the Internet

this is a new video i found and i thought it related with the class, so enjoy the video link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4

Past: the Super 8 MM film

Super 8 mm film
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Super 8 mm film, also simply called Super 8, is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8 mm home movie format, and the Cine 8 format.
The film is 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the older standard 8 mm film, and also has perforations on only one side. However, the dimensions of the perforations are smaller than those on older 8 mm film, which allowed the exposed area to be made larger. The Super-8 standard also specifically allocates the rebate opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded (with science).



Check out a better example of Super 8 mm footage in this Music video:
Les Thugs
I love you so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCekQ47Yse8