Posted on 09/08/2006 8:45:09 AM PDT by Dark Skies
The touch device has been created by researchers in America who used nanoparticles to sense the contours of a coin. It is accurate enough to detect the outline of Abraham Lincoln's face on a 1c coin and the letters TY in the word Liberty.
To make the sensor, the researchers built up a film consisting of alternate layers of gold and cadmium sulfide nanoparticles with a thin plastic sheet on top and glass below.
An object is placed on the plastic and an image sensor beneath the glass reads the changes in electrical current and electroluminescence caused within the nanoparticle layers. The strength of the changes in electric charge and electroluminescence depends on how much pressure is being used.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
At the movie theater: "Sorry, babe, that was my robotic arm. It's got a mind of its own."
And if you had the new stealth "cop a feel" sensor on your robotic arm...she would say, "what are you talking about, I didn't feel anything?"
LOL! I'm still waiting for "x-ray contact lenses."
This technology does look pretty cool, though.
Just in time for my annual prostate exam.
I thought this might be appropriate for your FutureTech ping list.
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