Week 8 - NanoTech + Art

Hiro Tadashi the kid in Big Hero 6 holding his microbots
https://www.sidefx.com/community/big-hero-6/

The field of nanotechnology is a very peculiar one. It is one of those topics that not many people pay attention to and give a lot of focus to. Nanotechnology should be hard or not visible to the naked eye, it takes looking under a microscope to see. In this week's reading I read "The Nanomene Syndrome" it mentions "Nanotechnology is more of a science than technology" (Gimzewski and Vesna). In the same reading, I also found "Nanotechnology was first proposed in the early seventies by a Japanese engineer' (Gimzewski and Vesna). I then made the connection that a few years ago in the Disney movie Big Hero 6 that took place in Japan, there was this kid who created the idea of microbots which were derived from nanotechnology. That is one of the few instances that I could remember that nanotechnology was featured in a film and used as one of
the main story lines.

Nanotechnology face mask
https://www.amazon.com/Nanotech-
Stem-Cell-Face-Mask/dp/B07289VTFV

One of the newest discoveries of NanoTech is that they are making a skin care face mask that has been created with nanotechnology. The face pack that it comes with is made from really light nano-material which makes the moisture when it's on your face feel like there is nothing there. The nanofiber dissolves once it goes into the skin. This is the new technology that even skin care is going towards because its the innovative way of the future. Nanotechnology is very tricky to work with just because it is so small and has to be used under a microscope. There is a lot involved that has to do with small particles in the face mask. Right now this product is being developed in Eastern societies such as New Zealand and China.

Nanotech golf clubs
https://www.2ndswing.com/pv-633305949-wilson-staff-staff-di5-iron-
set-3-pw-ust-nanotech-370-shaft-graphite-stiff-right-handed-38-in.aspx

As a sports fan and someone who has played golf in his high school years, I am fascinated to find out that golf is revolutionizing and making clubs lighter with the use of nanotechnology. This would allow for the balls to travel quicker and fly on a straighter path once they are hit off the club. Golf balls are also being changed to so they can adapt to the changes being done to golf clubs.
Wish I had this back in my day, I would have been a way better golf player.

Overall nanotechnology is the way of the future and pretty soon a lot of things will be made with nanotechnology.


Gimzewski, Jim, and Victoria Vesna. “The Nanomeme Syndrome: Blurring of Fact & Fiction in the Construction of a New Science.” Vv.arts.ucla.edu, UCLA Arts Department, vv.arts.ucla.edu/publications/publications/02-03/JV_nano/JV_nano_artF5VG.htm.

“The Use of Nanotechnology in Sports.” The Nanotechnology Used in Clothes, www.nanobusiness.org/the-use-of-nanotechnology-in-sports.html.

“Making Skincare from Hoki and Nanotechnology.” Newsroom, 21 May 2018, www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/05/21/110628/making-skincare-from-hoki-and-nanotechnology#.

“Microbots.” Disney Wiki, disney.wikia.com/wiki/Microbots.

Strickland, Jonathan. “How Nanotechnology Works.” HowStuffWorks Science, HowStuffWorks, 25 Oct. 2007, science.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm.