Thursday, August 07, 2008
A mini mass spectrometer from a small indianapolis company could bring significant changes to industries ranging from cancer detection to crime detection.
It's part of a general trend toward lowering information costs.
International herald tribune article focuses on fingerprints, but that is only one of many possible applications. Minaturization of machines is a trend associated with the Japanese, with NASA, and with the computer industry where Moore's law rules.
Dean Kamen is famous in part for minaturizing medical equipment, making things both smaller and cheaper, as though produced by a market economy rather than a soviet-style
medical establishment.
Update: ok, prosolia doesnt make the spectrometers, they make the spray.
It's part of a general trend toward lowering information costs.
International herald tribune article focuses on fingerprints, but that is only one of many possible applications. Minaturization of machines is a trend associated with the Japanese, with NASA, and with the computer industry where Moore's law rules.
Dean Kamen is famous in part for minaturizing medical equipment, making things both smaller and cheaper, as though produced by a market economy rather than a soviet-style
medical establishment.
Update: ok, prosolia doesnt make the spectrometers, they make the spray.
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