Posted on 11/08/2001 2:00:45 PM PST by VadeRetro
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:31:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Scientists have invented the tiniest transistor that may ever be possible -- using only a single molecule.
Bell Labs' organic nanotransistor, about 10 million of which can fit on the head of a pin, could be used to fit lightning-fast computers on clothes and paper and otherwise revolutionize technology as we know it.
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Doubt it. If this new technology is really as easy as they say it is, established companies will probably rush to dump all of that really expensive infrastructure ASAP.
"I thought my eyes would permanently cross", said co-inventor Hong Meng. "Soldering the leads to that baby was a bitch!"
IBM scientist sees nanotechnology supplanting transistors
Optics beyond existing limits - a single ion as a quantum probe
We live in amazing times.
I carry a Handspring Visor that has more computing power than the first 3 computers I owned. It weighs a few ounces and runs several days on a pair of AAA batteries.
What will these wireheads come up with next? I can't wait to find out.
Handspring Visor powerful!? Haha! Check out the new PocketPCs man. My "old" PocketPC (1.5yrs old) has 32mb RAM, 340mb Hard Drive, Stereo, 65,000 colors, 133mhz processor, 320x240 screen (can display up to 640x480). I've got the entire Star Wars Episode I movie I ripped from the DVD - in color, sound and all - that I play on my PocketPC. Talk about powerful!!!
I too am amazed and what is possible nowadays with technology and anxiously look forward to new breakthroughs. The future is in portable/pocket computers. As you know, once you've had one you'll never want to live without one. Never. They make the whole desktop PC paradigm archaic.
More info about PocketPCs: www.pocketpc.com, www.pocketpcthoughts.com, www.pocketpcpassion.com
Can you log in NOW?
"Doctor, with my broken arm, will I be able to play the piano?" "Sure, no problem." "Good, I always wanted to be able to play the piano..."
While the Northern Alliance charges the Taliban with horse cavalry!
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America -- here
I always wondered how they counted all those colors? Tell me, can you tell the difference between green 155 and green 173?
Yep. Somewhere, I may still have the plastic slide rule I had to buy in 1967 for my freshman Chemistry course. A couple years later, taking a course called Behavioral Statistics, I spent some time playing with a "calculator." It looked and sounded something like an old "ka-ching!" cash register.
This sounds very much like I imagine the process for making life in a lab. Minus the sulfur, I suppose.
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