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 Below is a very outdated video that still, to this day, shows a great example of what we could achieve with this technology.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!