Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes

Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns from Carbon Nanotubes 216

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:24PM from the the-warmest-sweaters-ever dept.

neutron_p writes "Scientists at The UTD NanoTech Institute achieved a major technological breakthrough by spinning multi-walled carbon nanotube yarns that are strong, tough and extremely flexible, and are both electrically and thermally conducting. Among other things, the futuristic yarns could result in 'smart' clothing that stores electricity, provides ballistic protection and adjusts temperature and porosity to provide greater comfort. The breakthrough, made possible by, in effect, downsizing ancient technology used for wool and cotton spinning to the nanoscale, resulted from an unusual collaboration involving nanotechnologists and experts in wool spinning."

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Knitting (Score:5, Funny)

by Ironsides ( 739422 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:26PM (#10889350) Homepage Journal

Does this mean that grandma can now knit me a bullet proof vest?

I just upgraded my loom last month ... (Score:5, Funny)

by 93,000 ( 150453 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:27PM (#10889359)

and now they come out with this. I knew I should have waited.

Say there... (Score:3, Funny)

by _PimpDaddy7_ ( 415866 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:27PM (#10889362)

"Are you wearing one of them new carbon-acrylic dockers? Or are you just happy to see me?" :)

Insertion: (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:28PM (#10889373)

Insert romantic notions of nanotechnologists and wool clothiers bartering their skills in the art. At an SCA meeting.

See? I can spin a pretty good one.

Too early in the morning for me.. (Score:1, Funny)

by BarakMich ( 90556 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:28PM (#10889378) Journal

I read that as:

Futuristic 'Smart' Yams From Carbon Nanotubes

Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:3, Funny)

by sw149 ( 570618 ) * writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:29PM (#10889382) Homepage

Lets see it will be silver, one piece and one size fits all.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

First application likely to be... (Score:4, Funny)

by Ingolfke ( 515826 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:29PM (#10889387) Journal

the chastity thong, a secure impenetrable and fashionable undergarment for young ladies concerned about fashion, and fathers concerned about young men.

Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:30PM (#10889390)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

Yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)

by elid ( 672471 ) writes: <eli.ipod@[ ]il.com ['gma' in gap]> on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:30PM (#10889392)

...does it repel stains?

Re:Knitting (Score:5, Funny)

by oexeo ( 816786 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:32PM (#10889422)

> Does this mean that grandma can now knit me a bullet proof vest?

If your grandma is a scientist working in Nano technology, yes.

Due to my Font (Score:5, Funny)

by Greyfox ( 87712 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:34PM (#10889442) Homepage Journal

I first read this as "Futuristic Smart Yams from Carbon Nanotubes." If ever any overlords ever needed welcoming, it'd be Smart Yam overlords. I wouldn't have to be the one to explain about Thanksgivings past. Hopefully they wouldn't demand to eat one human for every yam ever consumed...

obSimpsons (Score:5, Funny)

by Rorschach1 ( 174480 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:34PM (#10889453) Homepage

I, for one, welcome our new itchy sweater-wearing overlords.

Re:Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:2, Funny)

by Ironsides ( 739422 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:35PM (#10889454) Homepage Journal

And we will call it Mythril!

Progress got run over by Grandma. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:39PM (#10889502)

"The breakthrough, made possible by, in effect, downsizing ancient technology used for wool and cotton spinning to the nanoscale, resulted from an unusual collaboration involving nanotechnologists and experts in wool spinning."

Now just think what the car makers can learn from the buggy whip people?

Not smart enough. (Score:5, Funny)

by Kenja ( 541830 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:43PM (#10889538)

Is this "smart" yarn smart enough to stop people from wearing lime green paisley sweaters?

After cyberpunk, biopunk and nanopunk... (Score:5, Funny)

by quamaretto ( 666270 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:44PM (#10889559) Homepage

Comes textile-punk, to be featured in Neal Stephenson's upcoming book, Sweater Crash. Meanwhile, the Wachowski brothers have a new movie in the making about about a futuristic society where all of humanity is entrapped in a large, controlling single piece of nano-fabric. Of course, this was all done 50 years ago in an Asimov book.

Re:First application likely to be... (Score:5, Funny)

by Fulcrum of Evil ( 560260 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:47PM (#10889588)

the chastity thong

Ya know, you don't have to remove a thong for sex, right?

Re:CARBON Nanotubes (Score:3, Funny)

by drew ( 2081 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:49PM (#10889614) Homepage

yeah, cause i know my wife has to be careful not to get any nasty black stuff on her from her diamond ring....

Body armor, and other thoughts (Score:5, Funny)

by RealProgrammer ( 723725 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:52PM (#10889640) Homepage Journal

I hope it comes with a grounding strap.

I wonder if this would be a good material for microsurgical sutures.

And now, we can construct the world's smallest violin for Ron Artest [yahoo.com].

Re:What will we do with all the sheep? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:53PM (#10889644)

Use them for wool.

Re:First application likely to be... (Score:5, Funny)

by Surt ( 22457 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:58PM (#10889706) Homepage Journal

You do if it's an electricity storing smart thong that shocks to death anyone other than the daughter who touches it.

Re:The killer app (Score:3, Funny)

by HisMother ( 413313 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @01:58PM (#10889708)

I can see it now: you could walk up to any woman you see, clap twice, and turn her sweater into a bikini top.

Re:I just upgraded my loom last month ... (Score:2, Funny)

by Profane MuthaFucka ( 574406 ) writes: <busheatskok@gmail.com> on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:12PM (#10889845) Homepage Journal

Note to self: don't watch TV while laying on the floor.

Incredible? (Score:4, Funny)

by John Whorfin ( 19968 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:13PM (#10889851) Homepage

So this is what the Incredable's suits are made out of... isn't it daaaaaahling!

Re:The killer app (Score:3, Funny)

by CreatureComfort ( 741652 ) * writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:36PM (#10890017)

change the appearance of (color, pattern,

even cut, if possible) at will.

It's called elastic, and it's brother spandex. One used by old ladies to "change the cut" as waistlines expand, the other used by young ladies to "change the cut" to achieve the tightest fit possible.

Pray god you never see the two get mixed up.

...How did that go again? (Score:4, Funny)

by DuckDuckBOOM! ( 535473 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:38PM (#10890034)

Among other things, the futuristic yarns could result in 'smart' clothing that stores electricity...

Okay, if the handkerchief's in the left pocket s/he's AC, and the right pocket for DC...or was it the other way around?...
[BZZZAP!]
Damn.

Re:Has to be said ... (Score:5, Funny)

by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) writes: <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:41PM (#10890050) Homepage Journal

If yams can cook, so can stew.

Re:Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:5, Funny)

by zx75 ( 304335 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:46PM (#10890113) Homepage

And somehow seem strangely baggy on overweight men, yet still fit skin tight on a thin, shapely female form.

Re:Not only clothing (Score:3, Funny)

by zx75 ( 304335 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:50PM (#10890156) Homepage

See: Charles Babbage [wikipedia.org]

Fortunately, most metals are in fact, conductors. (Not that he used it in that way though...)

Re:Health concerns.. (Score:2, Funny)

by freqres ( 638820 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @02:50PM (#10890158)

Great, so we won't get lung cancer, only black lung disease. I think I will just keep with smoking my cigarettes while working in a coal mine thank you.

Re:Insertion: (Score:3, Funny)

by Bearpaw ( 13080 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @03:21PM (#10890452)

Insert romantic notions of nanotechnologists and wool clothiers bartering their skills in the art. At an SCA meeting.
No shit, there I was, making some chainmail at my boring security desk job at Carbon Nanotechnologies, when suddenly ...

Re:No nanotube sweaters for Christmas this year (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @03:39PM (#10890625)

"The authors of the article ... state that the small yarn diameters ... could eliminate the uncomfortable rigidity sometimes found for metal wire"

At last, a new, more comfortable WonderBra! And no tricky clasps for the men...

Whew! It's about time... (Score:2, Funny)

by cogito ergo blog ( 830437 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @04:06PM (#10890902)

...because these tinfoil underpants are getting seriously uncomfortable!

Re:Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:3, Funny)

by corbettw ( 214229 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @04:14PM (#10890985) Journal

And somehow seem strangely baggy on overweight men, yet still fit skin tight on a thin, shapely female form.

Apparently, it's not just "smart" yarn, it's also "heterosexual male" yarn.

Re:First application likely to be... (Score:3, Funny)

by RsG ( 809189 ) writes: on Monday November 22, 2004 @07:27PM (#10893034)

-Mmm microscopically thin and blocks things smaller than a virus.

Angstrom ribbed... for atomic pleaure! :-)

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Knitting (Score:5, Funny)

I just upgraded my loom last month ... (Score:5, Funny)

Say there... (Score:3, Funny)

Insertion: (Score:1, Funny)

Too early in the morning for me.. (Score:1, Funny)

Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:3, Funny)

First application likely to be... (Score:4, Funny)

Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)

Yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Knitting (Score:5, Funny)

Due to my Font (Score:5, Funny)

obSimpsons (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:2, Funny)

Progress got run over by Grandma. (Score:2, Funny)

Not smart enough. (Score:5, Funny)

After cyberpunk, biopunk and nanopunk... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:First application likely to be... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:CARBON Nanotubes (Score:3, Funny)

Body armor, and other thoughts (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What will we do with all the sheep? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:First application likely to be... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:The killer app (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I just upgraded my loom last month ... (Score:2, Funny)

Incredible? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:The killer app (Score:3, Funny)

...How did that go again? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Has to be said ... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Not only clothing (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Health concerns.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Insertion: (Score:3, Funny)

Re:No nanotube sweaters for Christmas this year (Score:1, Funny)

Whew! It's about time... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Futuristic 'Smart' Yarns (Score:3, Funny)

Re:First application likely to be... (Score:3, Funny)

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