A scientist injecting fruit with toxic nanoparticles before feeding it to your children to make lots of money? Friends of the Earth in Australia, who have been running a long anti nanotech campaign have just released a new report prompting sensationalist and confused headlines headlines like this – “Is nanotechnology a toxic food nano poison in Australia?“As always, it’s a …
No Nanodynamics IPO – Again!
According to numerous reports, “U.S.-based NanoDynamics, which cancelled a Nasdaq IPO last November, has pulled out of a planned listing in the Middle East.” Cue the chorus of angry and desperate investors and a rash of obituaries for the “nanotech industry.”
Nanodynamics Files For IPO, Ignores Global Stock Market Metltdown
If at first you don’t succeed….Nanodynamics, one of the raft of diversified nanotechnology companies under pressure from investors to get an exit of any kind, have announced that they will be the first nanotechnology US company to be listed on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX). You have to question the sanity of both the management and their advisors as …
The Tata Nano
I’m in Pune, India this week enjoying subjee in the sun while lecturing on entrepreneurship with a team put together by the British Council. Coincidentally, Tata Motors chose today to unveil their new car, and the world’s cheapest, the Tata Nano which although not containing much nanotechnology provides a metaphor of sorts for what we are attempting to do in …
Waste Water
Water and development seems to be a popular topic for discussion, but about as popular as the Ebola virus when it comes to taking any action. Richard Jones highlighted yet another talking shop over at Soft Machines, and one that look depressingly familiar. The most bizarre water project I came across was a Middle Eastern country which was looking for …
Turning Sand Into Semiconductors
The recent brief hiatus was caused by a lot of running around n eastern Europe and Middle Eastern desert kingdoms, many of which want to do things that do not involve oil!
NanoKazakh
Kazakhstan becomes the latest country to take a look at nanotech….
No New Regulation or Labeling for Nano Products
A somewhat predictable disappointment came today for the environmental lobby who had been campaigning to have all products containing nanomaterials labeled, and a common sense approach to regulation from the FDA’s nano department. However, as a consumer who spends a lot of time talking to toxicologists I still harbour a few worries, something shared by our Singapore Office general manager …
Taiwan Nano
This weeks carbon footprint was spread from London to Hong Kong and Taiwan for the Taiwan Nano 2007 conference (seen here being opened by president Chen Shui-bian) where we spent most of the day discussing the relationship between cleantech and nanotech. Taiwan takes its nanotech very seriously, perhaps more so than any of the other “tiger” economies, and has had …
The Nanometer-Silver Cryptomorphic Condom
The Woodrow Wilson Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies has a great database for anyone who has to give a presentation on the impact of nanotechnology, with over 500 products listed including the computer I am using right now. I was a little puzzled to see that on one hand the project is claiming a big increase in the number of products …