Nano: Radio...If Only I Could Get Pandora On It

Carbon nanotubes have many properties that would allow us to make significant advances in enterprise and consumer products such as electronics while significantly reducing, if not virtually eliminating, the amount of necessary materials. There is great promise in the application of carbon nanotubes not just because of its properties but because of its abundance and positive indirect effects. While there are negative byproducts of nanotube manufacturing, I am confident we will find better methods of production over time as we are doing with many products today.

Of the myriad applications of carbon nanotubes, music and voice can now be transmitted to and from a single nanotube. But that's not all. A single nanotube has properties making it an effective antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier, and demodulator. Looking forward to global implementation of smart technologies in our city infrastructures and consumer and enterprise products, the possibilities are limitless what we can do with virtually without intrusion. A single molecule or chain of molecules are capable of selectively relaying complex information real-time between any combination of objects or persons.

It won't be long before you're streaming Pandora internet radio through your clothes using directional sound. We're already using long-range acoustic devices such as that developed by Woody Norris (demonstrated later on TED and Future Weapons). 

Original University of California at Berkeley research is available here.

MIT Review's Technology covers this milestone here.

If only organic nanotubes tasted like grape Twizzlers. I'd buy at least my weight's worth at a time.