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Nano-browsing on the iphone - November 13, 2009

findNano_SplashMain.pngApp-tastic! An on-line inventory of products that use nanotechnology has now been translated to the iPhone. Ever wondered what nanotechnology is being used for right now? The answer's generally quite mundane - as evidenced by the number of nano-enabled badminton racquets , socks and suncream products in the inventory. “The really cool part – if you come across something that isn’t in the inventory that you think should be, you can simply take a photo and email it to us directly from the app,” explains Andrew Maynard, who works at the Project for Emerging Nanotechnologies.

Perhaps the next step might to link the inventory with one of the many apps that read barcodes … so you could scan a product and get instant feedback on its nano-ness.

The app doesn’t appear to be on the Android system, as yet.

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Posted by Richard Van Noorden on November 13, 2009
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For those interested, the comic featured in this blog is xkcd, and can be found here: http://xkcd.com/662/

Posted by: Lewis | November 16, 2009 10:17 AM

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