If you want to destroy the world, don't bother building a hydrogen bomb, just steal some self-replicating nanobots and cover the Earth in a layer of all-consuming grey goo. That's the moral of a hilarious video, which appeared this morning on the Mental Floss website. "It was created with cutti...

Bandai's Aqua Dance water toy utilizes some sort of nanotech coating to send endless balls...of water cascading through a maze. I feel the urge to pee just thinking about it. When the water balls......

As Tim Harper observes, with the continuing publicity surrounding Ray Kurzweil, it seems to be nanobot week. In one further contribution to the genre, I’d like to address some technical points made by Rob Freitas and Ralph Merkle in response to my article from last year, Rupturing the Nanotech...

Filed under: Computers Make no mistake, there are quite a few sophisticated ways to monitor one's glucose levels, but we're pretty certain we've never seen an approach as simple and as bodacious as this. Massachusetts-based Draper Laboratories has stumbled upon a new embeddable nanosensor that could...

This essay was first published in Nature Nanotechnology 3 p65 (2008), doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.14 . Can nanotechnology cure cancer by 2015? That’s the impression that many people will have taken from the USA’s National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Nanotechnology Plan [1], which begins with the ring...

Car-shaped molecules can zip around on a glass slide at about nine nanomiles per hour, and their wheels actually turn. Understanding how these nanocars move could make it easier for researchers to build more sophisticated molecular machines.  "These are, of course, the world's smallest car...

It’s pretty common these days for me to read something and react with “Wow, that’s like something from a science fiction story I read X years ago”. In addition to this being common, I’ve also noticed that X is decreasing. Some examples, just of things I read in the last...

Before going to the gym for a workout or after indulging in cake at the office party, people with diabetes can use a portable monitor to take a quick blood glucose measurement and adjust their food or insulin intake to prevent extreme dips or spikes in blood sugar. The inexpensive finger-prick testi...

  Today's sporting gear is dumb and benign.   But sports equipment is about to get a lot smarter soon --not just from a style point of view but literally.   The sports industry (along with porn) has always been a bellwether sector for new technology applications. Fi...

Devices, Life Sciences, VC Ryan McBride wrote: David Lucchino doesn’t like to use the word “coating” to describe the technology under development at his Cambridge, MA-based startup, Semprus Biosciences. Semprus, which was spun out of famous MIT inventor Bob Langer’s lab in 20...