MIT, U.S. Army open nanotech center

[Tony]

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030524.gtnanomay26/BNStory/Technology/

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Army formally unveiled the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, which is geared toward creating battlefield armour for the 21st century.

MIT has cut the ribbon on the nanotechnology institute, which was funded by a $50-million (U.S.) grant from the Army in 2002. Corporations including Dow Corning, DuPont, Raytheon and Carbon Nanotechnologies are participating in the center's development. In all, private companies have invested $40-million in the centre.

 

[BillyJoe]

Beware the "End Times"!......or maybe not.

 

[Frostbite]

This is uber. I need my bullet-proof skin.

 

[PixyMisa]

I for one welcome our new nano-robot masters.
You just stepped on them.
Oh. Well, carry on then

 

[Larspeart]

I was under the impression that they opened that center 3 years ago???

Either way, it is way cool. A bullet-resistent, self-mediced soldier that can (as the tv show went) run faster, jump higher, etc would be a MASSIVE on a battlefield. When you take into account how battles and such are becoming more and more urban and counter-terrorism-based, this becomes an even more significant advantage.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Or a cloud of self-replicating microscopic buzzsaws that you can spray from an aircraft.

 

[Gideon S]

As long as I can eventually get a direct neural/computer interface, I don't care what scary stuff the government comes up with.

 

[BillyJoe]

As long as I can eventually get a direct neural/computer interface.....

That might just literally blow your mind.

 

[Soapy Sam]

What if it's the gummint (now owned by Micro****) who run the interface? It reads your mind and finds out about the little white lie on your tax return, then it's FORMAT C:\ time.....

 

[woodguard]

I feel when we started to get a hold of nanotech, we will see a jump in every technology. It will started the next golden age of tech.
I started with tubes and I cannot wait to see where nanotech will go?


But God help the person who sneezes next to the nanotech lab, they will never fine it!