Nano radio

Posted by Catfish as Computerz, Tech, enviornment, science

When I was 8 or 9, I remember hearing about how certain people, after they had gotten fillings in their mouths, had inexplicably inherited the ability to hear radio stations. I thought the very idea was the coolest thing I had ever heard. Imagine sitting in class, or in church, Sunday school…slightly clenching your teeth and hearing the sweet sounds of Huey Lewis and the News being snatched from the air by your molars. Years later we’ve got the iPod, which is small in size, but still detectable enough to get confiscated in class…but now Scientists have produced the first working radio that receives radio waves wirelessly and then converts those waves into sound through a nano-sized detector made of carbon nanotubes. Just imagine the potential ramifications of this…all of the equipment and electronics that clutter up our homes, and eventually our landfills will soon be reduced to the size of a few grains of rice.

Probably more likely to happen first is Big Advertising will get a hold of the technology, and we’ll have them float in our ears while we sleep, as they hum subliminal straight into their target: our brains. Zestfully, zestfully, zestfully cleeeeeaaaaan…wait, why am I singing that? At least in the future, I will have the nanos to blame.

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