Food From Air, Universal Drinks

[asian1]

I read this prediction from RD.
Is this a real possibility or just a dream?
When will the new innovation ready for the market?

1. Creating food from air:

Marvin Rudolph (Director of DuPont Food Industry)

"Instead of harvesting grain and cattle for carbohydrates, nanobots could assembled the desired steak or flour from carbon , hydrogen and oxygen atoms present in the air as water and carbon dioxide".

2. Manuel Marquez Sanchez (Kraft NanoteK Consortium):

By storing ingredients in "Nanocapsules", he believes that Kraft will be able to devise such treats as an interactive customizable drink.

"Everyone is buying the same drink, but the customer can decide it's colour, flavour, concentration and texture by using ultrasound or radio frequencies to trigger the nanocapsules"

[asian1]

What about Nanobots that manage nuclear waste / coating it with Pb (lead)?
Or Nanobots for creating oil / other energy sources?

http://www.tainano.com/CCRN/TOWARD%20REAL%20SUSTAINABILITY%20BY%20NANOTECHNOLOGY.htm

[asian1]

>Nano - not practical.

What about various applications at micro level:
* Sensors.
* Parfum / preventing body odor
* Insect /pest killer
* Cleaning floor.
* Micro robot for surveilance, exploration etc.
* Creating new Ozone layer, reducing air pollution.
* Medical applications. (surgery, drug dispenser etc)

Is there any other possible applications of micro technology?

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http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/index.asp

Imagine machines so small they are imperceptible to the human eye.

Imagine working machines with gears no bigger than a grain of pollen.

Welcome to the microdomain, in which Sandia National Laboratories is a leader in the development of micromachines or MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems).