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Second Sight – Augmented Contacts

Getting information as fast as possible and on the spot is the trend. So what could be more direct than having information fired directly into the eye?

Today — together with his students — Babak A. Parviz, bionanotechnology expert at University of Washington, is already producing devices that have a lens with one wirelessly Radio Frequency powered LED. To turn such a lens into a functional browser, control circuits, communication circuits and miniature antennas will have to be integrated. These lenses will eventually include hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, which will form images in front of the eye: words, charts, imagery enabling the wearers to navigate their surroundings whithout distraction or disorientation. The optoelectronics in the lens may be controlled by a seperate device that relays information to the lens’s control circuit. Read more »
Arnoud van den Heuvel
on 02/09/09 4 Comments »
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- Digital-Presence | Feed-Back | Hyperreality | Image-Consumption | Nanotechnology | Physical-computing | transparant-interfaces
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Growing a nano forrest

Carbon nanotube arrays could be the basis of high-density energy storage devices and efficient chip cooling systems. The performance of such devices, however, depends on the quality of the nanotubes and the precise structure of the array.

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Van Mensvoort
on 03/03/09 1 Comment »
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- manufactured-landscapes | Nanotechnology
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The Nanosong

The American Chemical Society is holding a contest seeking short videos that answer the question: “What is nano?” UC Berkeley graduate student Patrick Bennett and his colleagues got creative and submitted their “Nano Song.”

I guess small things aren’t all that complicated. :{ Want more you say? Read more »
Arnoud van den Heuvel
on 24/02/09 Comments »
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- Information Decoration | Nanotechnology | Toys-are-Us
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Nanocars

This smart-looking image is a model of what James M. Tour at Rice University (Texas) and his research team like to call a ‘nanocar’. The clustered molecules can roll around on a glass slide at about nine nanomiles per hour, and its wheels actually turn. The nanocar is no more than 4 nanometers across, which is slightly wider than a strand of DNA. Nanovehicles like these are designed to study the materials and movements, to make it easier for researchers to build more sophisticated molecular machines. Eventually the researchers want to build tiny trucks that could carry atoms and molecules around in miniature factories.

So in the future, we could have tiny ambulances racing through our veins instead of antibiotics.

One of the minor details that need to be solved: At room temperature, strong electrical bonds hold the buckyball wheels tightly against the gold, but heating to about 200 degrees Celsius frees them to roll.

Via: wired.com | Related: Ball of Being | Nanotech Food | Voyage of the Bacteria Bots | Nanoflowers | Nanotechnology Crashcourse
Arnoud van den Heuvel
on 08/02/09 1 Comment »
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- Augmented-Bodies | Nanotechnology | On-the-Road
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Nanotechnology Crashcourse

This mashup video project integrates various video clips that ask:What is nanotechnology?

Via Posthumanblues, via Futureblogger. See also: Small Talks, Bacteria Bots, Nanosculpture, Nanoflowers.
Van Mensvoort
on 03/02/09 1 Comment »
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- Made-to-debate | Nanotechnology | Technorhetoric
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Voyage of the Bacteria Bots

The 1966 science-fiction movie Fantastic Voyage famously imagined using a tiny ship to combat disease inside the body. With the advent of nanotechnology, researchers are inching closer to creating something almost as fantastic. A microscopic device that could swim through the bloodstream and directly target the site of disease, such as a tumor, could offer radical new treatments. To get to a tumor, however, such a device would have to be small and agile enough to navigate through a labyrinth of tiny blood vessels, some far thinner than a human hair.

At the IEEE biorobotic conference 2008, researchers of the École Polytechnique de Montréal, in Canada, led by professor of computer engineering Sylvain Martel, showed to have coupled live, swimming bacteria to microscopic beads to develop a self-propelling device, dubbed a nanobot. While other scientists have previously attached bacteria to microscopic particles to take advantage of their natural propelling motion, Martel’s team is the first to show that such hybrids can be steered through the body using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To do this, Martel used bacteria that naturally contain magnetic particles.

Read the whole story at Techreview. See also: Bacteria that eat waste and shit petrol.
Dr Natural
on 03/11/08 Comments »
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- Augmented-Bodies | Bionics | Humane-Technology | Hypernature | Manufactured Animals | Nanotechnology | robotics
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Human body farm

Why not use the human body to grow products for the medical industry? The designer Michael Burton envisions Future Farm where the body is used as a farm to cultivate clinical and pharmaceutical products with bio and nanotechnology.
Elin
on 22/10/08 Comments »
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- Anthropomorphobia | Augmented-Bodies | Biopolitics | Calm-technology | Guided Growth | Nanotechnology
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Small Talks

An installment in the series of: “Things I have learned in my life so far“.

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Arnoud van den Heuvel
on 11/08/08 Comments »
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- Genetic-surprises | Global-Image-Economy | Information Decoration | Nanotechnology | Wild-systems
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Faustian Bargains and Pineapple Shampoo

Since the early days of the net, the electronic pastoral has lent itself to all sorts of dubious agendas pushed by science, the military and even libertarian tendencies. In the most recent configuration of this new media – new nature clash Merijn Oudenampsen and Jakob Proyer visited the Natural Habitat exhibition at Montevideo Amsterdam and find amidst the pixelated wilderness a difficult to swallow cocktail of Faustian bargains, hyper-modernism, and pineapple shampoo.

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NextNature.net
on 01/03/08 3 Comments »
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- Bionics | Designed-by-Evolution | Hypernature | Nanotechnology
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Making Objects Invisible: It’s getting easier

Theorists predict a new class of materials that could render objects invisible. The materials work because they interact with light in unusual ways. Researchers are beginning to put those theories into practice, making rudimentary invisibility cloaks by controlling the micro- and nanostructure of materials.To become invisible, an object must do two things: it has to be able to bend light around itself, so that it casts no shadow, and it must produce no reflection. While naturally occurring materials are unable to do this, a new class of materials called metamaterials is now making it easier to render objects invisible.Via MIT Techreview.
Van Mensvoort
on 13/01/08 Comments »
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Liquid armor

The US Army Research Lab in collaboration with the University of Delaware developped a special liquid called shear thickening fluid. It is actually a mixture of hard nanoparticles and nonevaporating liquid. When fabric has been impregnated and struck by a knife or bullet, it immediately becomes rigid and prevents the object from penetrating. The rest of the time, the fabric is flexible and lightweight.

Red capes and tight pants will soon be provided for every American soldier.
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Arnoud van den Heuvel
on 27/04/07 Comments »
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- Biopolitics | Calm-technology | Nanotechnology
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Ball of Being

Ball of Being is an online dance film featuring atoms, planets, footballs, globes, foam and molecules. It is uncertain whether we are entering a microscopic nanoworld, virtual spheres or an infinite universe far away (if the movie runs slow, decrease the size of your browser window).
Van Mensvoort
on 30/03/07 1 Comment »
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Nanosculpture

This copy of Rodins “Le Penseur” / “The Thinker” (1880) shouldn’t have that much on its mind… By using laser-technology, Korean researchers have crafted the microscopic version above, just about twice the size of a red blood cell.
www.livescience.com | related topic: nano flowers
Arnoud van den Heuvel
on 10/01/07 3 Comments »
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- Hyperreality | Information Decoration | Nanotechnology
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Metalosis Maligna

Metalosis Maligna is a documentary by Floris Kaayk about a disease which affects patients with medical implants. Sourcing from such implants a wild metal growth ultimately transforms human patients into mechanical looking constructions.
Van Mensvoort
on 07/11/06 15 Comments »
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- Anthropomorphobia | Augmented-Bodies | Made-to-debate | Nanotechnology
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Inner life of a cell

You know.. cells have feelings too… and friends.. Check the video here
Rolf Coppens
on 25/09/06 1 Comment »
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- manufactured-landscapes | Nanotechnology | Wild-systems
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Would You Like a Bouquet of Nanoflowers?

These crystalline ‘nanoflowers’ were developed by Cambridge University PhD student Ghim Wei Ho. The nanostructures of silicon carbide are grown from droplets of gallium on a silicon surface. These nanoflowers will be used in new applications, such as water repellant coatings or new types of solar cells. Next valentine’s day, send your lover some nanoflowers.They look beautiful under the scanning microscope.

www.nanotech-now.com
Van Mensvoort
on 18/06/06 1 Comment »
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Excuse me, Is Your Tooth Ringing?

The ‘tooth phone’ consists of a tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver implanted into a tooth during routine dental surgery. Sound, which comes into the tooth as a digital radio signal, is transferred to the inner ear by bone resonance, meaning information can be received anywhere and at any time – and nobody else can listen in. However, the ‘telephone tooth’ does not allow people to talk back to callers or make outgoing calls.

Tooth phone video
Van Mensvoort
on 16/06/06 36 Comments »
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- Augmented-Bodies | Bionics | Hypernature | Made-to-debate | Nanotechnology | Officegarden | Technorhetoric
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How to grow an Orangina bottle.

Consider an Orangina bottle: shaped like an orange it is designed to look like one. But it does so in a very primitive way. Imagine the product is the packaging. Wouldn’t it be great if we could grow Orangina bottles?

It is not hard to imagine that genetic technology makes it possible to grow oranges with a hard plastic skin. In additon, oranges can be modified to produce enzymes which degrade the flesh of the orange resulting in a self-generated juice… better than the real thing!

www.mollenhagen.com/orangina
Van Mensvoort
on 12/06/06 1 Comment »
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- Guided Growth | Hypernature | Made-to-debate | Nanotechnology | Supermarket
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