Stretchy, flexible future phones will transform from tablets into jewelry. But what if these nano-creatures begin to self-replicate and turn on their masters, gnawing away your DNA at the nanoscale level — mobile phones might truly become hazardous to your health! For now, it’s all just make-believe, but it’s a nice concept [via The Mobile Weblog, and Life As an Artificial Lifeform]:
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The problem with so-called pocket PCs today, which increasingly includes everything from mobile phones to PSPs, is the constant trade off between useful screen size and compact portability. But according to Nanogirl that will be a problem of the past once dermal displays reach their consumer canvas:
A “programmable dermal display” in which a population of about 3 billion display pixel robots would be permanently implanted a fraction of a mm …
While nanotech gets a lot of hype, it has done little thus far to deserve it. However, according to the journal Science, the University of Texas and Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization report the creation of industry-ready sheets of materials made from nanotubes. [via USATODAY]
"This is fundamentally a new material," says team leader Ray Baughman of the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson.
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