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General Forums => Generic Discussion => Topic started by: Mitch on November 24, 2014, 09:40:16 AM

Title: Behind Google X's secretive nanoparticle project.
Post by: Mitch on November 24, 2014, 09:40:16 AM

When the Internet impresarios at Google speak, the world listens. So the usual hoopla ensued last month when Google announced its latest ambition: to develop nanoparticle diagnostics paired with a wearable detector. One interview even brought up the tricorder, the fictional diagnostic device from “Star Trek.”

Link to full story: Google’s Nanoparticle Diagnostic Vision (http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i47/Googles-Nanoparticle-Diagnostic-Vision.html)
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I like how most people in the scientific community have never heard of this project.

Title: Re: Behind Google X's secretive nanoparticle project.
Post by: Corribus on November 24, 2014, 10:17:59 AM

Google's Vision? Lol, scientists have been working on nanoparticle-based diagnostic disease probes for the last decade.

Title: Re: Behind Google X's secretive nanoparticle project.
Post by: Mitch on November 24, 2014, 10:18:58 AM

@Corribus: Right!

Title: Re: Behind Google X's secretive nanoparticle project.
Post by: Arkcon on November 24, 2014, 12:28:08 PM

I like how its months earlier than Google's usual April Fools Joke.  Keep raising that bar there, Google.

Title: Re: Behind Google X's secretive nanoparticle project.
Post by: billnotgatez on November 24, 2014, 07:12:04 PM

Remember GOOGLE is our friend.

Title: Re: Behind Google X's secretive nanoparticle project.
Post by: curiouscat on November 25, 2014, 12:20:33 AM

Quote from: Corribus on November 24, 2014, 10:17:59 AM

Google's Vision? Lol, scientists have been working on nanoparticle-based diagnostic disease probes for the last decade.

Not very successfully though?

Remember, people had been working on machine vision for decades but it needed Google to come in and get that self driving car project really take off?