X-Message-Number: 15684 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:03:52 +0000 From: "Joseph Kehoe" <> Subject: [off topic snippets] Another nano idea http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41492,00.html He [Hubert] explained that the Nano Assembly system does things that can already be done today -- but with considerably better results using a more flexible system that results in a more reliable and cheaper end product. His invention offers the capability to move piles of a few thousand atoms at a time into patterns and structures at the size scales of individual viruses and proteins. Nanotechnology needs the tools to make working, three-dimensional nano machines possible. This is what his "pick-and-place" does better than anything out there today, he said, leading to a potential technology in which entire segments of a person's genome could be decoded in real-time. Lots of good stuff here... http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/specials/washington_2000/newsid_645000/645041.stm New World. New science. The 2000 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) was held in Washington DC. This is BBC News Online's record of the biggest science festival in the world. Joseph. ---------------------------------------------- Joseph Kehoe, MSc Raven Internet Technologies Ltd. ph: +353 503 52450 www.raven.ie Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15684