Anders Sandberg created these hazard symbols. I want them on a t-shirt.

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The world's first nanotech CAD/CAE software is developed locally to Penguicon, runs on Linux, and is open source under the GPL ( Read more... )

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Goatchurch on the MundaneSF blog posted about his skepticism of molecular nanotechnology. He asked why we think a self-propelled miniature machine can exist, when we still don't have a robot that can vacuum the living room. (Given the existence of Roomba, that's another claim which, in itself, I would highly debate.) Here is the response I put ( Read more... )

MIT's Technology Review has a video documentary series titled "The Impact of Emerging Technologies" which is exclusively online. It's really interesting! It covers stem cells; robotic prosthetics with a mind/machine interface; artificial polymer muscle; computer interpretation of body language; nano-scale valves; and more ( Read more... )

I hadn't previously heard of a few of the speakers at Stanford's Singularity Summit, but I know every single one of the following eight names, and it's the most exciting lineup of Guests of Honor ever. It's interesting to finally find out from their photos what some of them look like ( Read more... )

I recently blogged a video of a device unveiled last month that prints ribbons of carbon nanotubes at high speed. The article is here. Now there's another breakthrough. Today in New Scientist there is breaking news about a revolutionary development in nanomaterials that can make possible an elevator cable from the surface of the earth into space. ( Read more... )

From BoingBoing.
Jamais Cascio from www.worldchanging.com says:
"Researchers from the University of Texas, Dallas, and Australia's CSIRO have developed a way of making strong, stable and amazingly useful ribbons and sheets made of multiwall carbon nanotubes. Their system pushes the material out at seven meters/minute; a Quicktime video of the ( Read more... )

According to the BBC, scientists have invented a treatment for cancer using fullerenes coated with a vitamin that only cancer cells have receptors for. The fullerines are heated with a laser to kill off only the cancer cells, leaving healthy cells intact. R's mother is undergoing radiation therapy for a tumor which was recently removed, and it's ( Read more... )