{"id":2988,"date":"2006-11-05T23:19:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T03:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/11\/05\/the-brigademobile\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T03:19:52","slug":"the-brigademobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/11\/05\/the-brigademobile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brigademobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8896'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"77\">\n<p align=\"left\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scitech.pbwiki.com\/f\/vwnanospyder.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" align=\"left\">The L.A. Auto Show competition asked designers to dream up the ultimate environmentally friendly car. This the the entry dreamed up by the Bug Boys. Witness the Volkswagen Nanospyder &#8211; Designers: Patrick Faulwetter, Daniel Simon, Ian Hilton<\/p>\n<p>Using nanotechnology, the Nanospyder could be assembled, disassembled and reassembled on a microscopic level. To create the car, billions of tiny nano-machines, each no more than a half-millimeter in diameter, would attach themselves to one another in a large tank.<\/p>\n<p>With this technique, engineers could vary the density of the vehicle&#8217;s frame to create impact-absorbing crumple zones as needed. Sensors would forewarn of an impending collision, enabling the nano-machines to strengthen or weaken their bonds in different areas, creating soft spots in the frame that would bend to absorb the impact.<\/p>\n<p>from<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/popups\/2006\/autos\/green_design\/9.html\"> CNN Money <\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Auto Show competition asked designers to dream up the ultimate environmentally friendly car. This the the entry dreamed up by the Bug Boys. Witness the Volkswagen Nanospyder &#8211; Designers: Patrick Faulwetter, Daniel Simon, Ian Hilton Using nanotechnology, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/11\/05\/the-brigademobile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}