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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: WindAndConfusion on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 10:07:53 AM
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We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means. We have already used the nanotube radio to receive and play music from FM radio transmissions such as Layla by Eric Clapton (Derek and the Dominos) and the Beach Boy's Good Vibrations.
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/projects/nanoradio/radio.html
Check out the (caution: Quicktime) videos, captured via transmission electron microscopy:
"Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys (http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/projects/nanoradio/media/nanoradio-good%20vibrations.mov)
Eric Clapton (http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/projects/nanoradio/media/nanoradio-layla.mov)
Handel (http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/projects/nanoradio/media/nanoradio-largo.mov)
Star Wars theme (http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/projects/nanoradio/media/nanoradio-starwars.mov)
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Wow. Technology really is going to be the end of mankind, isn't it?
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Yes. Pretty soon we'll have surveillance devices woven into our clothing.
I understand what I'm hearing (the Beach Boys) but I have no idea what I'm looking at. I'll have to check the other MOVs. Thankfully I can download them for VLC. I've renounced Quicktime entirely.
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With the added bonus of being even easier to lose!
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Yes. Pretty soon we'll have surveillance devices woven into our clothing.
Completely unrelated, but i was listining to Keith and the Girl the other day and one of their guests was pointing out how the government probably isn't even bothering to wire or track the average joe anymore...they're proabably just dumping VC money into places like facebook and twitter and letting us do the legwork for them. I thought that was a pretty funny 'observation'.