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Ever wonder what an nano-sized assembly line would look like at the atomic scale?

Through the use of some software called NanoEngineer, you too can make your own conveyor belt and fly-wheel comprised of atomic dots.

Interesting animations and color schemes — and did I mention that Drexler worked on some of them himself?

In the past I have quoted several numbers which supposedly gauge the computational power that a human brain is capable of.  Several of these estimates come from Hans Moravec, a computer scientist and robot specialist at Carnegie Mellon.

I recently came across one of his older papers entitled “When will computer hardware match the human brain?“  It describes the trends in development in processing power as well as the engineering underpinnings of various anatomical features (such as the power of a retina).

And as luck would have it, a new computer-generated visual aid (video) was put together at the behest of Harvard University.  It flies the audience through the intricate molecular machines that operate our internal organs.

Beats watching Fantastic Voyage over and over again.

A couple days ago I noted that lobsters were one of the first creatures to have part of their brain fully simulated via computers.

Since that has certainly kept you awake at night, here is a thorough overview of the Stomatogastric Nervous System. The diagrams remind me of when I dissected a heart from a pig; memorable to say the least.