Well, of course if a soldier's body has extensive #nanotech, Zombie Mode will be a thing. A shot through the skull got you down? Your nanotech will seal the wound and your implants will keep your body fighting. The slower repair to the brain can be done afterwards. #SciFi
Systematic copper doping boosts all-solar utilization in tungstic acid nanocrystals. Sunlight is an inexhaustible source of energy, and utilizing sunlight to generate electricity is one of the cornerstones of renewable energy. More than 40% of the sunlight that falls on Earth is in the infrared,
I am completely convinced that AR-style extended reality is the thing that can someday replace desktop computing for a lot of people, if it is not hobbled by poor management and ecosystem decisions before it gets there. Keep your physical keyboard and trackpad, but virtualize your monitors and your macOS environment. If Apple's headset really is on a path, however many years away, towards becoming traditional glasses, this all seems inevitable. Perhaps eventually you won't even need the glasses
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While some folks have interpreted my ideas to be a #SciFi story idea, when I've mentioned it in the past, it wasn't (although it could be used as one):
Contact lenses used for displays, and nail polish used for sensors to interact with the software/internet. You can even type if you prefer a keyboard to a pen, because the nails are all polished with the #nanotech that interprets your finger motions to be typing. Or you can use a pen to write on air. It's all the same idea.
The only reason this probably won't be aggressively researched in the near future as real #tech, imo, is because so much of it would require feminine adornments. The #TechIndustry is very male-oriented and not comfortable with wearing nail polish.
I'm going to write an introduction post to pin since that seems like a useful thing to do.
I am Trash Robot. I was born in Juneau, Alaska in 1976. When I was 10 years old, I lived in XuZhou in Jiangsu province in China which is what exposed me to the ideas of trash magic first. My middle school and high school years were in the Hartford Area, in Connecticut.
Because of the Neal Stephenson novel Diamond Age, I was a huge believer in the #nanotech future back in the 90s, to the point that I followed the path of the character Lord Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw from Diamond Age to get a physics degree with a math double major and then go into applied physics research with the intention to go start a nanotech company and eventually become a god-like nano cyborg. To that end I worked in a nanotech lab at Berkeley for a year after graduation, burning carbon rods to make a new #Fullerene that had just been discovered in the group I worked in(Alex Zettl's group). I then worked in a quantum lab at Yale for a year, also as a technician, helping to build the lab of newly-hired professor Rob Schoelkopf, and that turned into becoming a grad student. I stayed in the Schoelkopf lab through the end of my applied physics Ph.D. and did my thesis on a primary thermometer using the noise from a tunnel junction. I focused my energy in that time on trying to make that nanotechnology-based thermometer into something that could be sold as a product to start my dreamed nanotech company.
That project involved getting into ultra low noise amplifiers using superconducting electronics, which led to my post doc at NIST which was building these amplifiers. Again I was always looking for ways to make those amplifiers into a product, trying to figure out how it might be commercialized. A 2 year post doc turned into a 7 year thing, as we got ongoing grant money from the intelligence community to build these amplifiers and distribute them for free to other labs they were funding. I was constantly trying to figure out how to scale technology and turn it into something you could sell. In the end I ended up building a series of sex toy products on the side which turned into a company and that's what I quit my job at NIST to build.
During that time I was also involved in a now-long-defunct stealth mode startup to try to build amplifiers for the quantum information community. I did both of these at the same time, consulting with the IBM quantum people while I tried to build out a whole line of products we were building in Denver and selling on the Internet. That whole thing fell apart in about 2015 as we were unable to scale as fast as we needed to for how the company was structured with investors. So then I took a few random consulting gigs and just thought really hard about our whole system and how technology is created. That led to writing the Trash Magic Manifesto and Action Coloring Book, and to the creation of the Geometron language. By this time we'd moved to DC and I ran out of money and consulting gigs and took a full time job at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, where some of my drinking buddies had jobs, in 2019. When the pandemic hit I went to part time and worked long hours on the side on Geometron and the whole idea of self-replicating media. I wrote 2 more books, the Book of Geometron and Geometron Magic. Then at the end of summer 2022 I quit there and moved back to Denver/Lakewood Colorado to spread trash magic out here on the streets of the Denver metro area. And here I am. With a web server from the trash at http://www.sloanslake.art and a shopping cart full of cardboard trash with self-replicating geometry on it.
Harnessing All-Solar Energy: Nanocrystal Breakthrough Transforms Infrared Light Conversion (scitechdaily.com)
Systematic copper doping boosts all-solar utilization in tungstic acid nanocrystals. Sunlight is an inexhaustible source of energy, and utilizing sunlight to generate electricity is one of the cornerstones of renewable energy. More than 40% of the sunlight that falls on Earth is in the infrared,