PRWEB - November 23, 2004 - The Nanotechnology industry web portal Nanovip.com ( http://www.nanovip.com ), after an exciting first year of development, has completed its beta phase and announces its formal launch. [PRWEB Nov 23, 2004]

About Nanovip.Com
Our interest in nanotechnology and the companies involved in this exciting industry naturally led us to the web, where we discovered that no definitive reference existed. We found some good web sites which provided nano business listings as part of their general directory, but there was no site dedicated to nanotechnology companies. This is why we created Nanovip.com: to offer a web-searchable, human edited database, focused on nanotechnology companies sorted by country and business sector.

Nanovip.com offers to nanotechnology business stakeholders a good opportunity to gain visibility on the web. Our site is visited by thousands of unique visitors each day, and is usually well referenced on the major search engines such as Google.

Nanovip.com has also partnered with other major nanotechnology business portals such as Nanotech-now.com and Tinytechjobs.com to share its companies' database; so when you submit your company to the Nanovip.com's directory, it will automatically be ported to partners sites as well !

Typically, nanotechnology companies visit our site and add their information in the appropriate category. Then, they reference their main products and create the profile information of the top staff members. Once this is done, companies can regularly send us their press release and announcements.

Note: some content addition is available only to registered users.

By Benjamin Melki, NanoVIP

In February, Adriano Cavalcanti and his colleagues are publishing for the first time the detailed work describing a medical nanorobot hardware architecture for diabetes (*). This new paper, published in the journal Recent Patents on Nanotechnology - Bentham Science, addresses the concept behind the use of nanorobots as pervasive monitoring devices to help in the therapy of patients with diabetes.

NanoVIP decided to interview Adriano Cavalcanti about his current and upcoming works for the gradual development and future use of nanorobots for diabetes.

Nanovip.com is a great platform for the nanotech advertiser, because our audience is targeted and professional.

By Douglas Mulhall

Most students of artificial intelligence are familiar with this forecast made by Vernor Vinge in 1993[1]: "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."

That was thirteen years ago. Many proponents of super-intelligence say we are on track for that deadline, due to the rate of computing and software advances. Skeptics argue this is nonsense and that we're still decades away from it.

By Brian Wang

This essay looks at some existing trends in military capability and technology development, and considers the impact of nanofactory-level nanotechnology (NN). A nanofactory[1] is a proposed manufacturing system that could be built if molecularly precise manufacturing technology is developed. Current projections indicate that a nanofactory should be able to fabricate its own mass of advanced products—including duplicate nanofactories—in just a few hours.

By Michael Vassar

The development of molecular nanotechnology (MNT) promises to lead rapidly to cheap superior replacements for a large majority of durable goods, a substantial fraction of all non-durable goods, all existing utilities, and some services. For this reason and due to the relatively low expected cost of developing nanofactories,[1] MNT represents the largest commercial opportunity of all time. Unfortunately, the very size of the opportunity—combined with its extreme suddenness, military significance, potential for disruption of existing institutions, and ease of duplication—creates certain severe complications that lead to difficulties in capturing the value created.

Nanotechnology could revolutionize the natural gas industry across the whole lifecycle from extraction to pollution reduction or be an enormous missed opportunity, claim two industry experts writing i

Nanotechnology—the precise engineering of tiny but powerful machines—is advancing quickly, leaping from the pages of science fiction into world-class research laboratories, and coming soon to a desktop near you.

Eleven original essays about the implications of molecular manufacturing — an advanced form of nanotechnology — were posted here last month. Written by members of a Global Task Force on Implications and Policy, some of the essays offered promising opportunities, while others raised troubling concerns.

By Damien Broderick

Can civil societies absorb the impact of MNT without degenerating almost instantly into Hobbesian micro states, where the principal currency is direct power over other humans, expressed at best as involuntary personal service and, at the worst, sadistic or careless infliction of pain and consequent brutalization of spirit in slaves and masters alike? It is a disturbing prospect, more worrying than crazed individuals or sectarian terrorists. Are we, indeed, doomed to this outcome through frailties in our evolved nature, unsuited to such challenges, or perhaps to the rapacity of the current global economy?

The information contained on this website has been provided by Nanovip.com for the purpose of providing information about nanotechnology businesses and web sites. The information provided is of a general nature. No warranties or assurances can be given about the accuracy of any of the contents of the information provided. Nanovip.com and all persons associated with it exclude all liability (including liability for negligence) in relation to any opinion, advice or information contained on this website or for any consequences arising from the use of such opinion, advice or information.

Nanovip.com wants to thank John Burch for the authorization to host the nanofactory movie on our servers.

Lizard Fire Studios worked with Dr. Eric Drexler of Nanorex to illustrate the operation of a desktop-scale nanofactory, and Version 1.1 is now available.

Why develop a nanofactory? Do you see value in a medical cure for cancer and AIDS, or do you know someone with a spinal injury and reduced quality of life? A machine like this could produce medical instruments and therapeutic devices able to make these problems a thing of the past.

By Michael E. Buerger

On top of my physical desk sits a copy of Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers, 1660-1886, Humphrey Jennings’ “imaginative history of the Industrial Revolution.” On my computer desktop are essays by the authors of this volume (and the previous one[1]), the possible precursors of Pan-nano-daemonium: The Coming of the Micro-Machine.

From this page you will be able to download a ready to print pack of pdf documents containing all of the nanotechnology companies records from nanovip.com's