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Nanotechnology For Fly Fashion
Does the picture on the left makes this post look like a joke? Think again. This preserved housefly is sporting a pair of two-millimeter-wide eyeglasses, engineered with ultra-precise fast-pulse laser technology. I guess you must have really big brains to play with this kind of advanced tech. Kudos!
Nanotechnology is an experimental field of applied science and technology. It covers a broad range of topics and is focused on controlling and exploiting the structure of matter on a scale below 100 nanometers (a meter is equivalent to one billion nanometers). An ultrafast pulse of light is an electromagnetic pulse whose time duration is on the order of the femtosecond (10− 15 second), ie. it is one billionth of one millionth of a second. Once impossible to observe, ultrafast phenomena are now extensively studied thanks to advances in the design of pulsed dye lasers.
Ultrafast Lasers can be used to process all kinds of materials with extremely high quality and reproducibility. Unlike conventional laser processing, ultrafast laser machining reduces damage to the surrounding area, such as melt zones, micro-cracks or debris, thus making post-treatment unnecessary.
However, I will be looking forward to more practical uses of nanotechnology, such as robots used for treatment inside human bodies. What are your thoughts?
7 thoughts:
Cool info, Ilker Yoldas. The Fly, thankfully , doesn't look like David Crönenberg's "The Fly". Thanks for the information. You go!
I look forward to the use of nanotechnology in building a super-strong carbon nano-tube tether for the space elevator.
All I can think of is, "Why?"
LOL. I mean ok that's cool they can do that but, do the glasses really benefit the fly any? lol
Once a monkey got hold of a Razor blade, he slit the throat of his friend (who was a king), trying to kill the fly resting on Kings's neck. That's an Indian anecdote.
Somebody gave Fast Lasers to anotherbody and here we only got a fly, no king and none of his friends. However the spirit of technology got killed. At least they should have made the spectacles ergonomically for the hapless fly!!!
did anybody else think of Karl Pilkington when they saw this?
Yes i thought of karl pilkington. and as usual he got his facts wrong by not even reading the first line
Karl on the concept of a doppelganger.. 'What would do my head in is ..... How would I know which one I was?'
What do you think? Post your thoughts..