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The Secret of Nano Technology Anchor Britain says it plans to invest more in what’s known as nano technology. The term may sound unfamiliar but it’s already a part of daily life for many. As Lawrence McGinty now explains, the promise of nano technology is almost unlimited. Correspondent If you think nano technology is all in the future, think again. These, for example, are nano trousers; they’re already on sale in the United States. They feel like ordinary cotton trousers but there’s a thin nano layer, which resists spills and stains. So, if you spill your drink, this is what happens, it just runs off. The trousers aren’t even damp1. Nano trousers are just one application of the technology. This is a nano factory producing almost any material you want as very fine nano powders. Paul Reip, Qinetiq NanoMaterials There are 50,000 particles2 in this vial for every person on the planet, that’s all 6.9 billion people. Correspondent There are 350,000 billion particles in this tube. So nano technology is the science of the very small. But how small is small? Well imagine I was shrunk to a 1,000 times smaller. I’d be about as big as the eye of a fly, but nano is even smaller than that. In fact, much, much smaller. Imagine I was shrunk again, this time 10,000 times. I’d be about as big as a virus3, but nano is even smaller than that. You’d have to shrink4 me another 100 times to get the nano version of me, a billion times smaller than the real me. Industry is already building devices on that scale. Here in Cambridge they’re making very thin nano layers of a plastic that emits5 light when electrical current runs through it. The technology will soon be on the market, in mobile phones with very bright, energy-saving displays. Karl Heeks, CDT limited People will see these initially in fairly simple products like mobile phones but ultimately they will be in TV’s, and when the technology moves on to plastic, you’ll have the roll -down TV that you can p