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• Nanotechnology for drug detection

  I tell audiences that the day is coming when nanotechnology will be able to tell what they ate or smoked. That day is coming closer, according to Nanowerk News: To this day, fingerprints are just the thing when a perpetrator needs to be arrested or a person Read more
  Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 8:00 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Nanotechnology, Abuse of Advanced Technology, Nanotech, Nano, Future Medicine, Nanosurveillance

• Nanotechnology or not: Iron seeding of ocean seems premature at best

  Regular readers of Nanodot know that we often disagree with ETC Group — but not always. They have issued a press release condemning a plan by a private firm to seed the ocean with iron particles in an effort to fight global warming. An excerpt: As worrying, Read more
  Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 7:19 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, International organizations, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Environmental groups dispute about nanotechnology

  We mentioned earlier a request for comment on a proposed Nano Risk Framework for approaching nanotechnology materials safety organized by Environmental Defense and DuPont. Now a different group of organizations has come out against that framework. Their statement Read more
  Posted Friday, April 13, 2007 7:48 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Windows Vista: potential negative impact on nanotechnology

  John Walker brings to our attention an apparently distressing set of concerning regarding the new version of Windows, known as Vista, written up by Peter Gutman as A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. Excerpts: The only way to protect the HFS Read more
  Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 3:58 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Ethics, Opinion, Open Source, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, Complexity, Computational nanotechnology

• Public still sensible about nanotechnology

  Public attitudes toward nanotechnology are being tracked closely — perhaps more closely than for any previous set of newly-arriving technologies. The surveys vary a bit, but here’s one by Prof. Steven Currall of University College London that fits Read more
  Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 5:36 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano

• Nanotechnology hazard symbol misleading

  We should assume that those participating the ETC Group’s nanotechnology hazard symbol contest are all trying to be helpful, and such a symbol may someday be of some use. However, of the three top symbols named as winners, the first one — by far the Read more
  Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:17 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Memetics

• Nanotechnology prof boggles nano community

  On the plane back from last week’s U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office-sponsored workshop on ethics and nanotechnology, I dug into the report “Health and Nanotechnology: Economic, Societal, and Institutional Impact” (not on web, Read more
  Posted Monday, January 15, 2007 7:25 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano

• Sensible Swiss views on nanotechnology benefits, downsides

  Switzerland’s Centre for Technology Assessment has issued its report Public Reactions to Nanotechnology in Switzerland (428 KB pdf), and — not surprisingly — it’s relatively balanced. From page 33 (page 35 of pdf file): “There’s a good Read more
  Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 5:05 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano, European Nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology regulations at city level: Unhelpful

  Red Herring reports that the city of Berkeley, California, has voted to approve its own nanoparticle regulations: On Tuesday night the Berkeley, California City Council passed an ordinance to regulate the use of manufactured nanoparticles, tiny subatomic [sic] Read more
  Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 6:28 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Nanotechnology, Government programs, Nanotech, Nano

• Common sense about Samsung silver nanotechnology

  Nanowerk reports that the German branch of Friends of the Earth (BUND) is calling for Samsung to withdraw from the market its washing machine using silver nanoparticles: …BUND criticized that considerable amounts of silver could enter sewage plants and Read more
  Posted Tuesday, November 21, 2006 10:50 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanobusiness, Environment, Health, and Safety, Nanotechnology Politics, Public participation, Ethics, Opinion, Public Involvement, Asia Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano