“Jamming Skin Enabled Locomotion” or JSEL for short is the name iRobot is giving to its all-new technology, which for the first time allows a small robot to act like both a liquid and a solid, with tons of potential military and consumer applications down the road.
This DARPA funded project has huge military (as well as consumer) implications down the road.
This may be as useful as the Ice Cream Glove idea proposed by Ali G – but it seems that you can now get your hands in the nano-engineered Touch-Tech Glove that enables you to operate your iPhone – or any capacitive touch screen, such as ATM machines.
Developed by amateur inventor Jerry Leto, TouchTec gloves use nano-impregnated textiles–including real leather–to mimic the capacitive properties of the human hand. In other word, you don’t even need to have your hand in them to use them.
Techcruch is reporting the unveiling of a new Panasonic Lithium-Ion battery module, often used in laptops and other portables, for the purpose of renewable engergy regneration. Specfically, you can string a bunch of these together which give you a great storage module to store the solar-generated power on the roof of your house.
Expect these technologies to gain traction over the next few years as solar cells, battery, and storage technologies improve.
Want to keep your neighbor from snooping on your WiFi signal (which is downloading an adult video from an illegal bittorrent site)?
Fear not – nanotechnology is to the rescue!
NaturalNano has developed a spray coating paint that can block high frequency radio signals, such as those used by your WiFi equipment (usually 2.4Ghz). This passive blocking of Radio Frequency signals (RF) has a variety of applications, including movie theaters who need a legal way of blocking cell phones from ringing during a movie (active signal jammers are illegal).
The Nanotech Conference & Expo 2010, the largest nanotech conference and expo event will hold its 13th annual show at the Anaheim Convention Center on June 21-25, 2010, with an expected 5,000 attendees and over 300 exhibits.
The mission of this conference is to unit innovators to bring nanotechnology from laboratories into the marketplace.
Nanotech is the study of matter at a very small (nano) scale – generally at the single molecule or even the single atom scale.
Given the relatively new tools and techniques now available, we are now able to devise and develop products starting with nano materials as the starting building blocks. This ability has profound ramifications in all aspects of human life, as nanotech provides us the ability to attack problems from an entirely new angle: the nano angle.
This blog is meant for the non-technical person who has an interest in breakthroughs and commercial endeavors that occur in the field of nanotechnology. Our aim is to breakdown the science into understandable language, and providing a platform for education and discourse within this new and exciting field.
