Nanotechnology

[glitterboy2098]

i'm not so sure about 'nanoseeds' being able to manufacture equipment out of dirt, a lot of elements needed for such won't be present.

but the idea of a 'pill" that can be taken to get an effect would be cool. for example, a nanite pill with nanites programmed to break down food in your stomach to provide better nutrition, or programmed to go into he brain and tweak the pain centers to serve as a painkiller.

[Lenwen]

It IS nanotechnology that enabled the feared an relativly unknown Juicer Techno Zombies . Along with those and the Murder Wraith I have loads of fun heh as usual the PC's see an UNdead an think the water gag works on them all the time . To thier horrer when they unload thier water guns on them an they simply keep comming at them its halarious .

But yeah those nano's are badass's lol capable of virtually anything really . Least in my point of View they are lol .


-Lenwen.

[Qev]

"Utility fogs" are an interesting application of nanotechnology; basically swarms or clouds of small, airborne, self-propelled micromachines, that can link together. Originally thought up as a replacement for seat-belts, oddly enough (in the event of a crash, they'd link together, 'solidifying' the air inside the vehicle and thus cushioning the passengers), they could have lots of different applications, from ubiquitous surveillance to construction to self-defense.

Obviously, nanotech doesn't have to mean 'tiny replicating robots'; any ultrasmall-scale engineering is nanotech. Things like MDC armor, or shapable fabrics composed of microscale actuators and processing (smart-fabric), or knife-blade edges that synthesize deadly neurotoxins from the body fluids of the unfortunate victim being cut.

One of the more mind-bending applications of nanotechnology is the use of quantum dots to create what's called 'programmable matter'. Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor electron traps, acting in a sense much like atoms with their clouds of electrons. Only these are user-configurable, so one could adjust the electronic (and thus chemical) properties to hearts desire, changing the material from marble, to steel, to substances that just can't exist in nature... at least as long as it's powered.

[Qev]

I think what really blows my mind about the quantum-dot programmable matter is that people are working on creating it IRL.

Check out Wil McCarthy's Hacking Matter, he's a bit of a pioneer of this idea.