#nano-tech

[kj-suicidesquad]

Tony hitching a ride into outer space

[allflash-nobang-moved-blog]

Spirit of the tumble weed

how I describe Deadeye (via @allflash-nobang)

[kelskora]

It's a robot dragon dino thing idk

[thoughtandmatter]

The size of matter could matter

In the present the labelling of everything seems to be fetishized and given importance. Commercial interests use marketing to sell, and in the same process simplification takes place, and the nuances that take part in the more complex play of life are no longer so easy to consider. In most cases this is of little consequence. But classic and slightly entertaining examples would be the use of cocaine in toothing balm for infants around 1900′s. Cocaine, as quicksilver and silver, was considered a drug of wonderful healing powers, until they became aware of the implications. 

“Nano” is a descriptive word and is about scale, a very small one. Almost everything in the world, no matter how big, is on the nano-scale, except from for instance electrons which are too small. Now “nano” is being slapped on as a label representing “effective” or “good” on many products, the problem is that this is very new, and we have no idea what implications this could lead to. To introduce a wide variety of new matter could bring disaster when it enters the ecosystem. When the size is that small, it will enter animals, even tissue. There are already many examples of plastics in fish and other life forms. The introduction of nano-plastics is one of these new products being sold because it is a convincing sales argument, for a skin peeling cream (then not actually nano) or other consumer products. The problem with plastic is that although it might break into smaller pieces, it can take decades or longer for it to be removed. We have already introduced plastics into the biosphere, but we should prevent it from becoming worse than it already potentially is. Nano technology can have great benefits in some fields, but useless products such as those of vanity containing cheap nano-plastics to maximize profit are simply destructive. -A

[atinysupernova]

Flexible nano-pixel screen patented

[thescienceisgolden-blog]

Nano-tech is awesome, check out this new product demo. Super-hydrophobic spray on tech means you can slurrrp your spaghetti all you like! 

Appropriately called 'NeverWet'

[chroniclesofachemist]

Okay, so this just happened:

AgCl --uv--> (Ag+)   +  (Cl-) Lecturer: Yes and the silver particles go to the pub to hang out with the other silver particle husbands, to form nano-particles of silver which gives the glasses that tint when in the sun. After you re-enter the shady areas, there is less UV so the silver particles go home to their chloride-wives, hence the loss of tint from the transition glasses. Using a husband going to the pub as an analogy for the temporary separation of AgCl. O_o

[ellis-deigh-blog]

They Want Your Soul This is a few years old, but it is just as applicable now as it was in 2004.