Mason Inman - science journalist

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"I hate to sound like I'm selling a Ginsu knife"

2007-11-02, 17:38:57

Here's my favorite science quote of the week: 

"I hate to sound like I'm selling a Ginsu knife - 'But wait, there's more! It also slices and dices!' - but this one nanotube does everything," Zettl said.

—in the San Francisco Chronicle, nanotech researcher Alex Zettl of UC Berkeley describing his carbon nanotube radio, in which a single carbon nanotube performs all the key functions of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator