The top ten developments?

Fixing the Road.
Every day I am stunned by the state of roads around this part of the world. Given the coastal situation the low road is completely full of potholes and bad repairs. So here is the thing, given that road surfaces fail so easily why aren't you nanoscientists coming up with a new roadsurface impervious to sea salt and wear and tear???

If manufacturing is entering the "Golden Age" of nanotechnology, then carbon nanotubes are the "Golden Child." These tubes of graphite many times thinner than a human hair have become a emerging technology because of their potential ability to add strength and other important properties to materials. Adding carbon nanotubes to plastics and other polymers has potential to make automobile and airplane bodies stronger and lighter, and textiles more tear-resistant.

A new study by the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health (CPGGH) at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB), a leading international medical ethics think-tank, has listed the top ten Nanotech applications it sees as helping out the poorer nations of the world.
The top 10 nanotechnology applications are:

* Energy storage, production and conversion
* Agricultural productivity enhancement
* Water treatment and remediation
* Disease diagnosis and screening
* Drug delivery systems
* Food processing and storage
* Air pollution and remediation
* Construction
* Health monitoring
* Vector and pest detection and control

The story has been credited to medicalnews.com on various sites but I can only find it here.

The future is Nano

Just thought you might like to know some of the research going on in Nano at the moment that might have a direct effect on your life.
We may soon be able to paint the TV onto a wall a window or even roll it up and carry it around with us. Imagine how this might be applied to computing. I roll out my screen on the table in the cafe and spill coffee all over it, use the screen to wipe up the mess and settle down to work. When I am finished I can roll it up again and stick it down my pants if I like. Although the article doesn't give us much nformation about how this might happen it does tell us a lot about John Protasiewicz whose brain child it is.

This probably ties in well with Mphase's plans Vice president Phil Thompson thinks, ..."Personal TV will separate the winning operators from the also-rans," Thompson said. "Customization will be the strategy that lets telephone companies change the playing field from bandwidth and price only." Thompson recommended that telcos take advantage of their inherently two-way networks to compete with cable and satellite companies."

Computers will be operating at light speed but not yet in a nano second. PSI recently announced a new material that will help in the development of Optical interconnects. "Optical interconnects will quite literally provide computers with the ability to operate at light-speed."

Now let me mix the computer and the camera. New technology will allow camera technicians to finely adjust and focus any lens without the need for assistants or bulky monitors. If they can get this technology into the film business it will do away with a lot of jobs and also save a few focus pullers, who might have had a bit much the night before. "Kopin's compact, high-resolution CyberDisplay enables installers to configure our cameras and imaging products right at the installation site," said Jim Voss, Pelco senior product manager. "The Pelco CST150 is designed to provide the ultimate in installation ease. An installer simply plugs the tool directly into any Pelco camera featuring a service connector. The integrated microdisplay allows for fine-focus precision and setup flexibility at the installation site - with no more need for a second person back in the control room or for a bulky monitor."

However if neither computers nor TV are your thing, then you can always write a book. Now copywriting a book will be made much simplier by the development of a new ink and GPS. Yes Anyone with the technology will be able to track a book no matter where it goes, not only that, but if you take the book out of the teritorry, then the ink dissappears until you bring it back again. This is just too cool I love the idea.

There are of course plenty of developments happening in anti-ageing creams, imagine nano bots all over your face straightening out your wrinkles, and sunscreen, again imagine millions of little bots holding up sun shades to protect you while you tan. Perhaps it's better if some people don't know what's in the cream that they put on their bodies.
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