This is a thread about predicting what will be the first commercially available nanotech. Will it be in strong light weight materials, display monitors, batteries, medicine...or the common light bulb?
http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_quantumdot_led.htm

if nanotech is ever used it must first be proven to pose to danger no humans therefor my guess would be medicine

And carpets, oven doors and crockery that cleans itself.

if nanotech is ever used it must first be proven to pose to danger no humans therefor my guess would be medicine
You may be right. I just unearthed this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_sc/nanotech_health

How you define nanotech is also important. According to a very lose definition, carbon black is nanotechnology, so we've actually been using it since the 19th century. Of course carbon black is toxic, and it takes little stretch of the imagination to think of the damage of inhaling nano-sized metallorganic assemblers.

How you define nanotech is also important. According to a very lose definition, carbon black is nanotechnology, so we've actually been using it since the 19th century. Of course carbon black is toxic, and it takes little stretch of the imagination to think of the damage of inhaling nano-sized metallorganic assemblers.I didn't know that about carbon black...you mean the lamp black they used to make ink with? How is it toxic?

Upon refreshing my memory, its not exactly totally toxic, but can definitely aid dangerous muck getting deep inside you, since it is so fine that it goes straight into lungs etc. Then there was a study recently about some nanoparticles that were found to be toxic to fish.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/1333864.html

I didn't know that about carbon black...you mean the lamp black they used to make ink with? How is it toxic?
coalminers suffer from black lung
a disease caused by inhaleing coal dust.

Theres black lung, and also silicosis, from inhaling silica particles that are in the air in the mine as well.
HHmm, black lung:
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch049/ch049c.html

Silicosis:
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch049/ch049b.html

Not good at all.

Actually, CArcano, I'm impressed you know they used to make ink out of lamp black. I know it only because I'm interested in the history of science and technology. I assume you are the same?

used to? they still do with newsprint.

For decades there were ultra fine grain size materials. Today "Nano" peddling is everywhere to catch the golden rain, nano materials are not exception. For me, nanotechnology are self-assembling things as it was envisioned originally. Humans are nano, no angstrom, bots after all:) I'm pretty sure we all will be dead and that stuff still will be just round the corner. Every other use of "nanotech" to secure the funding is misleading if not fradulent. I've met few crooks milking nano cow. Dream on folks, those guys surely will come up with something to keep their paycheck coming.

Well, as various more sensible people have said, the more likely first nanotech will actually he specially engineered biotechnology. Drexlers assemblers are a long way away in the future. It is far easier to start with cells and stuff that can already manipulate atoms at the right scale. I personally think that is more likely.

Still make newsprint with nanoparticles of carbon? That doesnt sound right, unless your in a somewhat slow country.

This is a thread about predicting what will be the first commercially available nanotech. Will it be in strong light weight materials, display monitors, batteries, medicine...or the common light bulb?New single-layer carbon nanotube sheets: conduct electricity, emit light or heat, and have the potential to be used as artificial muscles in humans as they can expand or contract with electric potential differences:

Source: "Nanotubes show their strength in numbers: Super-strong sheets could be used in future screens and surfaces," reported by Kathleen Wren
Science, Aug. 18, 2005. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8976160/

Article in August 19th issue of the journal "Science."

Excellent article there! I wonder how they could function as solar cells if they're transparent?

I hope they create biodegradable nanobots that will brush my teeth everyday, U see as I brush no matter how hard I try, I still cant remove all the plag.

Cheap disposable biodegradable nontoxic nanobots please !

dangerous!