Nanotech Musical Instruments

redbeard writes "BBC News has an article on the world's smallest harp. I guess the next step is a full Nanotech orchestra. . . " That, and the machines that are going to make me immortal, and able to survive at the bottom of the Marinas Trench.

last ime it was a guitar

[gavinhall]

Posted by LOTHAR, of the Hill People:

I remember about a year ago it was done with a guitar. They would play it by microwave resonance. Couldn't do much with one string tho, except your favorite Green Day song maybe ;)

Da da dummmm! 404!

[gavinhall]

Posted by LordPraetor:

Whoops... that's what you get for not telling anybody until the last minute!

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Yay..

[otis wildflower]

... Talk about stupid tech tricks.. Like we need smaller flea circuses, though if they played dixieland jazz it wouldn't be so bad...

;)

Trench?

[Fantome]

Why the bottom of the ocean, Hemos? Getting a few too many mob connections?

nifty but not nanotechnology

[jetson123]

Those are some nifty micromachines, but it isn't nanotechnology.

"Real" nanotech is bottom-up, not top-down

[Chris Worth]

The nanoharp and other toys are great demos of precision machining, but "real" nanotech is a bit different.
It's about snapping together atoms into molecular machine parts, assembling them from the bottom up - not grinding away at vast clumps of atoms from the top down until you get something the right shape.
The difference is important: think how different (and superior) digital is to analog for computing. Bottom-up molecular precision is digital; the nanoharp is analog.
Nanotech guru Eric Drexler has two books online at http://www.foresight.org ; Linux types will get more out of "Engines of Creation" than "Unbounding the future." (Disclaimer: I'm a nanotech junkie and member of Foresight, and can say it's a VERY worthwhile society to belong to.)

Broken Link?

[NeoMage]

I get a 404 on this one....

I want a nano-synth

[anal0gue]

where's the fat chunky sound of nanobots jivin with dna strands.. analogue meets digital in a happy mix.

Found it at

[ptomblin]

here [bbc.co.uk]

Go here

[Ermit]

Here's the correct link for those of you who care.

Nanotech hits high note [bbc.co.uk]

Pen and Tell

[PhoneMonkey]

Don't forget to check out the world's smallest pen [bbc.co.uk] too.

i also saw a device (can't remember the URL which is a nano lock that can be used to actually, physically lock a CPU so it can't be used. Anyone else see anything like this also?

"Responsibility for my career? I'm just a freakin' phone monkey!"

on chip clock generator?

[wayne]

I wonder it this type of technique could be used to generate clock sources on a computer chip?

Distributing clock signals is one of the hard problems with modern processors and cost a lot of chip realestate. By using something like this, it is possible that people could build faster and smaller CPU.s

This could also make overclocking a thing of the past, real quick like.

Hmmm...