How Small Can Nanomachines Be?
When does the next tech gadget start a revolution in the way we coexist on this planet? It’s crazy when you think of how far we’ve come in the last 50 years. Is the key to making things better, making them smaller ? Nano-tech is the science of shrinking things to one billionth of a meter. Huh?! That didn’t mean much for me either, until I found this fact: it would take 5 million nano-meters to equal the size of an ant! It doesn’t take long to come around to the idea that this shrinking is the way of the future. Remember when the first flat screen TV’s cost $10,000 and weighted as much as a 4th grader? Now they are less than a half inch thick (1 cm) and we can carry a large one under one arm. How about the first mobile phones, when they needed to be permanently connected to a ten pound (4.5 Kg.) battery pack? The video we are sharing today is a wonder, start to finish, as David Poque – tech columnist for the New York Times – illuminates facts like: If everything i...