IBM Makes World's Smallest 3D Map with Nanotech

[JMcEntegart]

Scientists from IBM have created a 3D map of the world that is so small, 1,000 of them could fit on a single grain of salt.

IBM Makes World's Smallest 3D Map with Nanotech : Read more

 

[formin]

go IBM !!!!!!
this removes 3 or 4 steps in the chip fabrication process

 

[micr0be]

next step is adding color ...... black and white 3d nanometer scale of the world is so 10 years ago

 

[eklipz330]

omg imagine the number of formulas i can right on my thumbnail for finals with this...

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]omg imagine the number of formulas i can right on my thumbnail for finals with this...[/citation]

But the 10 foot tall microscope that you'll need to read them might give you away.

 

[micr0be]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]But the 10 foot tall microscope that you'll need to read them might give you away.[/citation]

also he spelled "right" wrong, so i think they'll just pretend they can't see anything anyway, and let him cheat.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]omg imagine the number of formulas i can right on my thumbnail for finals with this...[/citation]
Never mind your thumbnail, use a contact lens instead.

But then again, everyone in the class would be wondering why you look so cross eyed during the test!

 

[longshotthe1st]

[citation][nom]Renegade_Warrior[/nom]Never mind your thumbnail, use a contact lens instead. But then again, everyone in the class would be wondering why you look so cross eyed during the test![/citation]

They should be looking at their own papers, not him!! lol

 

[Minus_i7]

Clearly what the eco-terrorists were trying to stop.

 

[darkknight22]

[citation][nom]Minus_i7[/nom]Clearly what the eco-terrorists were trying to stop.[/citation]

exactly, because this is going to DESTROY the environment

 

[Doctor-boom]

For all we know the map could be purple with yellow dots: it's viewed using a scanning electron microscope, which does not see colors, at ALL. You can color code the image differently than black and white, but it really look nicer this way. Note that you are not "seeing" the object really: a detector is telling the machine how many electrons came from that point on your sample, so it does not always work in the same way as a light generated image.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Well this makes me quiet excited.

 

[belardo]

Well... they aren't going to tell you when they make the worlds smallest dick.

 

[jhansonxi]

With this the nanites can begin planning for world domination.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]formin[/nom]go IBM !!!!!!this removes 3 or 4 steps in the chip fabrication process[/citation]
Well yes, but this would serialize a massively parallel process, to use the terms inappropriately. This method lays down the atoms(?) one at a time, while photolithography lays one layer down all at once. I think that the gain of skipping multiple expose and etch steps would be swamped by the cost of building the circuit atom-by-atom.

It might be a good way to make prototypes. OTOH, with a reasonable half-billion transistors in a chip, if the machine could lay down a thousand gates a second, it would take (punching buttons instead of using mind) five days and change to make one chip.

 

[rebb]

With this the nanites can begin planning for world domination./quote]

The beginning of the end! Has John Conner been born yet!?

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

[citation][nom]jhansonxi[/nom]With this the nanites can begin planning for world domination.[/citation]
EUREKA!!!

 

[drowned]

Yes the 3d map is a novelty, but someone will find a genuine use for this eventually.