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Open Source Nano Technology (opensourcenano.net)
13 points by kqr2 on May 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments



Nanotech is the future, the distant future, but a very bright and interesting time to live in.

Besides all the new nano-materials, I am interested in nano-food production. Remember the food pills? something like that. World hunger would be over.

And before someone jumps in to say it would taste like plastic food, I say, what would stop us from adding the best flavors in the world to the nano-pills?


After thought: If we can produce food in a factory from its basics atoms, like we process gasoline today in refineries, I guess all farms in the world would be useless so we could recover all that land for human living.


I'm sure there will always be people who distrust nanofood or otherwise are willing to pay a premium for organically grown food.


Wow... this is something I would be very interested in. Too bad the site has very little content.



Right... I meant participating in open-source work on nanotech.


Normally I hate linkspam, but if you are in any way interested in this fascinating subject and you want to learn more about, you can visit http://www.nanopartikel.info :)


there was something similar to this for synthetic biology too, though it was much further along with a complete sdk to do basic, ummm, synthesis? does anyone know what it was?

regardless, this is dope.


Possibly BioBricks and the parts registry: http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page

Or iGEM: http://2010.igem.org/Main_Page

If neither of them perhaps DIYBio could point you in the right direction: http://diybio.org/


wow, thanks dude, diybio looks like an awesome little community, some interesting looking projects too


At the moment the focus seems to be mainly educational and artistic. It looks like they're struggling getting more research type projects going but there is certainly a lot of potential in the community which I hope will lead to good things.

You may already be aware of it but if you're interested in biology/medicine you might want to take a look at http://hackermed.com/ as well which kyro is trying to get going. Only just started so users and content are lacking but again hopefully good things will come from it.


Do you mean OpenWetWare?

http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page


nah, that's the only one i can pull up whenever i go hunting, its frustrating because i can't even remember what was really differentiating about it, i just remember thinking "wow, this is gonna be friggen awesome... once i learn biology"

ah well.




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