Nanocar Wins Top Science Award 175
Lucas123 writes "A researcher who built a car slightly larger than a strand of DNA won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology. James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice Univ. built a car only 4 nanometers in width in order to demonstrate that nanovehicles could be controlled enough to deliver payloads to build larger objects, such as memory chips and, someday, even buildings, like a self-assembling machine. Tour and a team of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers constructed a car with chassis, working suspension, wheels and a motor. 'You shine light on it and the motor spins in one direction and pushes the car like a paddle wheel on the surface,' Tour said. The team also built a truck that can carry a payload."
Does this mean (Score:5, Funny)
I still don't think it's better than wrestling (Score:1, Funny)
Bubba tells me these Nanonascar stuff is better than wrestling, but I just bodyslam him and tell him he's wrong.
No Cup Holders? (Score:5, Funny)
No cup holders? Worthless. Even Nanites need somewhere to put their Nano-Dr Pepper.
Re:Missing tags.... (Score:4, Funny)
sorry - too little, too late :)
Oh hell no!! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh hell no, please.
My wife has enough trouble finding the regular sized car when she has been shopping.
How the hell will she find a nano-car?
Finally... (Score:5, Funny)
THE car for the man with an incredibly long penis.
Re:No Cup Holders? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh hell no!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:No Cup Holders? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't really think anybody wants to show off the fact that they have nano-nuts...
To put that in layman's terms... (Score:5, Funny)
4 nanometers is 1/3,657,600,000 of a Volkswagen.
particle man's car? (Score:2, Funny)
Does the car get gas, or does the gas get it?
Re:Does this mean (Score:4, Funny)
And they'll get one proportional to the size of their cars.
Re:Hate to be gloomy but... (Score:1, Funny)
Nano airplanes crashing into nano Trade Centers!
Re:Does this mean (Score:5, Funny)
Meh... (Score:2, Funny)
Call me when someone finds a way to mount 22" rims on it.
Re:lots of small things working together (Score:1, Funny)
and redundancy leads to layoffs. :-(
Re:Oh hell no!! (Score:3, Funny)
Easy to park, sure. But try finding it afterwards in a busy shopping mall parking lot!
Re:lots of small things working together (Score:4, Funny)
Lots of small things working together also creates redundancy.
Let's just hope this redundancy produces a single sky scraper as opposed to 50+ distro's and a dozen or more winmanagers! :p
Found a picture (Score:4, Funny)
(couldn't help myself)
Re:Found a picture (Score:2, Funny)
Here it is --> .
(couldn't help myself)
Pff that's not actual size, that's like displaying an enhanced 4 foot poster of a fly. ... :)
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Re:Does this mean (Score:3, Funny)
*gruff voice*
Ahhhh, here's yer problem here. Ya need to have yer polarity shifted on the rear axle, an' ya need to re-balance the valancies on yer break lights. Winter's comin' so if ya wanna be safe, ya better recharge the van duh wall forces in yer tires jus to be safe!
That'll be $65,535!
Re:Does this mean (Score:3, Funny)
YAWN! Wake me when someone builds... (Score:1, Funny)
an army of hair-cutting and bathing nanobots and sics them on RMS. Then post the video on YouTube.