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[spyder]

Hows about a flying car?


Maybe the water is your thing. Here is a car that you can buy for $1.5 million bucks. It doubles as a submarine. It is an all electric car that can cruise at the speed limit.

[spyder]

Some new tech from the Israeli's. Could turn into new armor.

Tougher than stainless steel and even the previous record holder, bulletproof Kevlar, a new, transparent material developed by scientists in Israel is the hardest organic nanostructure known to man.
Inspired by an unlikely source -- the beta-amyloid proteins found in patients with Alzheimer's disease -- the new material could be applied to make steel tougher and may also lead to cheaper and lighter body armor.
"In principle it may be possible," to print body armor, said Ehud Gazit, a scientist at the Tel Aviv University and a co-author of a new article in the journal Angewandte Chemie international edition.
Watch videos about the future of military body armor.
"But we are thinking of more straightforward uses: to improve the mechanical properties of composite structures, such as ceramics and bulletproof glass," he added.
The new material is similar, but not identical, to the brain plaque linked with Alzheimer's disease. Dozens of amino acids form those beta-amlyoid proteins. The new synthetic proteins only have a fraction of those amino acids and are covered with an additional protective layer to create super-strong spheres.
The spheres are microscopic, ranging in size from about 30 nanometers to two micrometers. The material itself is transparent and easy to manipulate and manufacture.
It is also incredibly tough. Only a diamond-tipped probe could penetrate the material -- and to make a dent the probe needed to use twice the pressure of what it would take to make a mark in Kevlar.
All of these properties suggest the new material could be used in a range of applications, from bulletproof armor to stronger, lighter steel.
"I think this is an amazing discovery," said Kenneth Woycechowsky, a scientist at the University of Utah familiar with the research. "The rigidity and stiffness of these spheres is unique, and surpasses any other known organic molecule, even Kevlar."
Despite the promise of the new material, it could be decades before scientists are able to translate its design into functional applications.
"We have several patents and it is being licensed, so we hope to see it on the market soon," said Gazit. "But it always takes more time than one expects. Kevlar was invented in the 1960s but only in the 1980s did it become incorporated into body armor."

[theGinsue]

That all-terrain sequay device looks cool and it tears up the trail in a dirt environment, but I wonder how it would hold up to the rocky CO mtn passes/trails.

[Irving]

Spyder, thanks for bumping this. I must have missed it when I was very busy with starting work again back in Feb. If you don't browse www.slashdot.org, you should.

[Hoosier]

Spyder, thanks for bumping this. I must have missed it when I was very busy with starting work again back in Feb. If you don't browse www.slashdot.org, you should.

Also Wired.com

H.

[spyder]

Just lettin people know of the crazy shit that is out there...

Measured in billionths of a meter, self-assembling nano-sized devices designed to carry drugs and imaging agents into the body are revolutionizing medicine by improving drug solubility and bio-distribution, providing a platform for combining targeting and imaging agents, and enabling membrane barriers to be crossed as well as making drug and imaging agent combination therapies possible.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...ng-agents.html
Full research paper http://www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...vkihpey4.alice

They can use these nano vehicle's to deliver the medicine directly to the source needed so you don't have to dose the patient up on whatever kind of meds they need. They were only talking about this stuff when I was in biotech, now it's here. Think about it, if you have cancer, instead of taking a really big dose of chemo and drugging yourself at the same time you are trying to kill the cancer, these nano meds deliver the exact right amount to your tumor to kill it and it's done, you don't get sick from the over dosing of chemo. Think of all the different things that could work with?

[spyder]

Think of what you could do with this kind of thing...

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The Nanomaterial changes its strength by electric signals.
(PhysOrg.com) -- A world premiere: a material which changes its strength, virtually at the touch of a button. This transformation can be achieved in a matter of seconds through changes in the electron structure of a material; thus hard and brittle matter, for example, can become soft and malleable. What makes this development revolutionary, is that the transformation can be controlled by electric signals. This world-first has its origins in Hamburg. Jörg Weißmüller, a materials scientist at both the Technical University of Hamburg and the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht, has carried out research on this groundbreaking development, working in cooperation with colleagues from the Institute for Metal Research in Shenyang, China.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-...roperties.html