After decades of hype, speculation, and multimillion-dollar laboratory research, the long-promised nanotechnology revolution is finally coming to a store near you. For proof, check out the transparent sunscreens, spillproof pants, and tennis rackets with extra pop now on sale. Nanotechnology gets its name from the nanometer, a unit of measurement that is one billionth of a meter. A human hair is about 20,000 nanometers thick. Scientists say materials and devices manufactured at the nanoscale promise to change life as we know it. "I'd say [nanotechnology] has the potential to be truly revolutionary," said Gregory Rorrer, a chemical engineer at Oregon State University in Corvallis. "That's why there's so much interest in it right now." Rorrer has a grant with the National Science Foundation of 1.3 million U.S. dollars. The grant is a small piece of the billions of dollars the United States government is funneling into research and development to spur the nanotechnology revolution.
I think this is amazing because then you can have really small mp3's or cellphones or even stuff like computers (which we kind of have already; imate) so i think this is going to be much much better.
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/
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