Can you really use an American icon to explain nanotechnology? Apparently you can. A new video featuring scientist Andrew Maynard mixes the snack cake with humor to unlock the mysteries of nanotechnology.
According to a promo this video “serves up the complexities of nanoscience in enticing, digestible, bite-size morsels. It is a friendly, funny, 25-minute travel guide to the technology that promises to ignite the next industrial revolution. Maynard shows products that use nanotechnology today and travels into the future to demonstrate how nanotechnology will change virtually everything—in medicine, energy, materials, travel and electronics”.
One of the more challenging aspects here at NanoVic has been the ability to demonstrate nanotechnology to a wide ranging audience due to its size. We have found animations to be an excellent tool in this regard and currently have ones explaining self cleaning glass, water and drug delivery, just to name a few.
Anyway, this video sounds like a lot of fun and I guess at the end you can always eat the twinkie!
Jesmi | 18-Dec-07 at 12:26 am | Permalink
Nanotechnology is all about making things that are less that 100 nanometers in size. A nanometer is one–billionth of a meter. A single strand of hair – sliced across like salami – would measure 100,000 nanometers across.