Move over, UC Irvine: your colleagues across the state at UC Berkeley have just one-upped your
nano-scale radio by not only using nanotechnology for the demodulator, but actually "stuffing" all the components into a single carbon nanotube. By utilizing mechanical -- rather than electrical -- vibrations of a nanotube protruding from an electrode, the team from Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were able to mimic the tuner, antenna, amplifier, and demodulator which compose traditional radios. Their prototype nano-radio, 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, has already been used to broadcast and receive such classic tunes as Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys and Eric Clapton's Layla; a video of this latter transmission, whose poor quality will make you long for the relative clarity of AM radio, is available after the break...
[Via
San Francisco Chronicle, image and video courtesy of Zettl Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley]
posted Nov 1st 2007 1:56PM
It doesn't qualify as radio till me until I can listen to Hot 97.1 WQHT.
I'm willing to be the first thing all you gadget lovers out there do when you see a device with an embedded FM tuner - is to try and play your favorite station.
imagine dropping a box full of these and they all start playing britney spears's give me more
what do you do to stop them?
Drop a bucket full of water?!
If that doesn't work, try vacuuming the area.
Here comes Metal Gear Solid style codec sequences.
I'm glad to see that they have some class. Eric Clapton's "Layla" is an excellent song to play when setting a record that involves radios.
As opposed to classical music?
well at least they didnt play 'gimmme more' or some shit
For the love of crumb cake, "Layla" is by DEREK AND THE DOMINOS. It's off of their album "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs."
Will anyone ever get it right?
It's like saying "Strawberry Fields Forever" is by Paul McCartney.
Eric Clapton wrote the song. It's his. He owns it. Notice my use of the apostrophe and the s at the end of his last name; "Clapton's." The 'apostrophe s' is possessive. It means he owns the following subject, 'Layla.' Which he does.
Thanks for playing.
Eric Clapton wrote the song. It's his. He owns it. Notice my use of the apostrophe and the s at the end of his last name; "Clapton's." The 'apostrophe s' is possessive. It means he owns the following object, 'Layla.' Which he does.
Thanks for playing.
"Thanks for playing?"
You didn't refute me. It's a Derek and the Dominos song, a collaboration by the whole group, period. Even Duane Allman added his own touch. Clapton may have the rights to it or whatever but you know just as well as I do that most people think "Layla" is by Eric Clapton...solo. Most don't even know who the hell Derek and the Dominos are. Like whoever wrote that article up there didn't say "Brian Wilson's 'Good Vibrations.'" It's just annoying.
"Thanks for playing?"
You didn't refute me. It's a Derek and the Dominos song, a collaboration by the whole group, period. Even Duane Allman added his own touch. Clapton may have the rights to it or whatever but you know just as well as I do that most people think "Layla" is by Eric Clapton...solo. Most don't even know who the hell Derek and the Dominos are. Like whoever wrote that article up there didn't say "Brian Wilson's 'Good Vibrations.'" It's just annoying.
Anyone know where my radio is? I dropped it and I don't see it anywhere.
The surprising thing is that you saw it in the first place.
So when are they going to start working on the real nano ipod?
...and yet they still can't fit one into an ipod
ba-zing!
As long as they get people's money, and they look spiffy, why would they care?
Though no longer in production, Circa 1997-98, I had purchased a radio designed and manufactured by American Technology Corporation that fit inside of your ear canal.
http://www.atcsd.com/
Wait until the RIAA finds about this!
improve the reception, implant it into my ear, and let my brainwaves control the volume, frequency, etc... all is great until it breaks and I have Brittany Spears jamming in my head at 3am on some idle Wednesday morning.
Glad to see someone aware of Derek and The Dominos.
Here's there explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjHOByeqS6k
This is pretty cool, however, the writeup makes it seem like all of the components were scaled down to nano size when in fact at least the amplifier and power source were not scaled down.