More and more places keep publishing stories on my nanocar research. The list so far:
C & E News: Nanocar Rolls Into Action
Slashdot: The World’s Smallest Car
New York Times: Scientists build tiny vehicles for molecular passengers
MIT Technology Review (www.technologyreview.com): coming soon
PhysOrg.com: Scientists build world's first single-molecule car
CNET (news.com.com): Here come the nanocars, Hot wheels
Instapundit.com: Nanotechnology update
Popular Mechanics: World’s Smallest Car
PC Magazine: Researcher Develops World's Smallest Car
Nature: Nanocar takes a test drive
Science Daily: Rice Scientists Build World's First Single-molecule Car
Science News (www.sciencenews.org): coming soon
E4: The Engineer Online: Motoring on molecules
Scenta (
KHOU 11News Blog: Rice scientist’s build world’s first single-molecule car
Foresight Nanotech Institute: Light-driven motorized nanocar built at Rice
Live Science: The World's Smallest Car
Small Times (www.smalltimes.com): Inside Rice, A Tiny Car
The Engineer (De Ingenieur,
Platinum Today: Palladium catalyst launches first nanocar
C2W (Royal
Nanotechnology Now: Rice Scientists Build World's First Single-molecule Car
United Press International: Scientists build a single molecule nanocar
Monsters & Critics: Scientists build a single molecule nanocar
AZoNano: Single Molecule "Nanocar"-Chassis, Axles and Four Buckyball Wheels
Betterhumans: Nanocar built from a single molecule
Red Herring: The Buckymobile is Born
WebIndia: Now, a nanocar 20000 times smaller than a human hair!
NewKerala: Now, a nanocar 20000 times smaller than a human hair!
Doctor Fun (Nanotruck cartoon): Battle of the Monster Nano Trucks
LoneStarTimes: Rice researchers build ‘nanocar’
BoingBoing: Nanocar
Zoo Magazine (
JKM Media (
ZietWissen Magazine (
Spiegel Online (
Space Ref: Rice scientists build world's first single-molecule car
MSNBC: The World’s Smallest Car
P2Pnet: World’s Smallest Car
ExtremeNano: Researcher develops world’s smallest car
All Headline News: World’s Smallest Car Revealed
Environment News Service: World’s Smallest Car Built from a Single Molecule
Digg: Scientists build world’s first nanocar
AutoBlog: Nanocar redines ‘subcompact’
Dvorak Uncensored: Great for driving short distances
ExtremeTech: Researcher develops world’s smallest car (link to PC Magazine story)
What’s Next in Science and Technology: Scientists build world’s first single-molecule car
ABC News: Researcher develops world’s smallest car (copy of PC Magazine story)
Technology News Daily: Single-molecule car, Nanocar
The
Science Blog: Scientists build first single-molecule car
Chemlin (
Scienceticker.info (
AMA TechTel: Scientists build a single molecule nanocar
TruckBlog: Scientists build world’s first single-molecule truck
Red Nova: Scientists build world’s first single-molecule car
NanoApex: World’s first molecular car zips about on fullerene wheels
Softpedia: The World's First Single-Molecule Car
icWales: Nanocar takes 'Mini' to a new dimension
Virgin.net: Nanocar takes 'mini' to new level
LinuxElectrons: Rice Scientists Build World's First Single-Molecule Car
I4U: Nanotechnology – World’s smallest car
Times Online (
opening line: “It looks like a pair of dumb-bells...” (Are they talking about the car or the PI’s?)
Multimedia:
ScienCentral: TV interview with Jim and Kevin (this week or next?)
NPR: mentioned in broadcast
Top Twenty Insights about the Nanocar (adopted from Slashdot.com discussions):
1) Sorry I'm late coming home, honey. I lost the car again.
2) Only 4 nanometers across and yet it still holds 10 clowns! Go figure.
3) A nanocar is no problem; the hard part is making a really small Midas muffler shop.
4) You feel like a giant because you can easily hold millions of them in the palm of your hand.
5) But you feel a little silly because you have no idea how to change a tire.
6) Oh great! Now half the parking lot will be marked off for nanocar parking. Had enough trouble parking the hummer in the compact car spots now I have to jocky it into half a billion nanocar spots.
7) Finally, the perfect solution for men that have really large reproductive organs.
8) We’ve finally figured out what to use Buckyballs for...We’re living the dream folks.
9) It’s not ready to be the new Bluesmobile, until you add a cigarette lighter.
10) It’s not the size of the car, but how you use it.
11) The biggest problem driving it around
12) If your nanocar is broken, you’ll have to send it to a quantum mechanic!
13) Oops, made the same mistake as Ford and we only offered it in black.
14) It is so typical that when developing the industrial nano-cities of the future they chose to develop nano-cars instead of a sensible atomic mass transit system. If this policy continues the consumption of nano-gas will raise nano-oil prices so high that soon we will have to invade nano-arabia. I for one will continue to endorse nano-carpooling and the use of nano-bikes whenever possible...
15) Great, a new oxymoron for the English language: Nano-SUV.
16) Well sir, the car you just purchased has no doors, no airbags, nothing to use as a seat, no radio, and a horrible AC package... but I got good news. You just saved a fortune by switching to Geico!
17) Beginner drivers will still have trouble parallel parking it.
18) The Rice Univ. Police Department “booted” it using an ion.
19) You can pimp your nanocar by adding radioactive atoms to give it a nice green glow.
20) A little tricky for the science team when they have to ask for funding...
Funding Agency: What's the problem?
Scientists: Well, we need to be able to move atoms and molecules around in precise ways.
Funding Agency: How can we help?
Scientists: We need some funding to build little, tiny trucks to carry them around in.
[long pause]
Funding Agency: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No really guys, what did you need?
2 comments:
hehe! the top twenty are hilarious! and the little funder conversation got a full-on geek chuckle.
slashdot people can be so smart!
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