[sourcery]

[martin_fierro]

Ah, but can they make computer code walk?

(and where is it going?)

[manwiththehands]

The brilliant physicist Richard Feynman first described the science of nanotechnology in 1959. We're just now getting started!

[Technocrat]

It's a waste heat to power conversion system! Make a really small hamster wheel and put a million of them on it walking the same direction. Now make a million of the hamster wheels and put the entire contraption in a smokestack. Voila! 10 KW of electricity!

[mikrofon]

DTA does not need any bars to move in a straight line and, hence, would allow a much simpler way of creating such molecular memory

As opposed to a DUI resulting from bars which causes an inability to walk in a straight line and typically yields a loss of memory...

[SunkenCiv]

A nano-walker... I just hope no pranksters invent the nano peel.

[SunkenCiv]

"This offers an easy realization of a concept for molecular computing proposed by IBM in the 1990s, in which every number is encoded by the position of molecules along a line similar to an abacus, but about 10 million times smaller. IBM abandoned this concept, partly because there was no way to manufacture the bars of the abacus at molecule-sized spacing."

Base ten computing...