98 % of the children in the developing world are dying due to water borne diseases. The people most at risk of arsenic poisoning are in Bangladesh, India and Nepal area. And it is mostly the children who succumb to water-related deaths due to diarrhoea.

Can nanotechnologies really help solve water problems in developing countries? There are two positive signs that they will, according to David J. Grimshaw, head of Practical Action’s international programme in new technologies and new technologies consultant for SciDev.Net.

First, water professionals and scientists are increasingly including local communities in dialogues to understand the problems with, and opportunities for, applying nanotechnology to water improvements.

Second, since the commercialization of nanotechnology is at an early stage, we can hope that such discussions — between researchers, communities and industry — will encourage scientists and businesses to develop appropriate business models to exploit their inventions.

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Move over digital cut-and-paste-guys and data hackers. You will soon be out of job, because the traditional way of data IP protection is moving over to a new patented mechanism enabled by Trinity Future-In.  Which means, the creative content you created, the logo of your company, the unique idea you documented, or the music you composed cannot be used by anyone without authorization.

It is estimated that the total magnitude of counterfeiting and piracy worldwide could well be several hundred billion dollars more.

The innovative mechanism of Trinity for protecting digital files is not based on the traditional use of a lock and key system. In this solution files become invisible or inactive and block unauthorized duplication.

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Dan Zen’s latest group game The Nano Race is about “Six groups have the technology to enter the Nano World! Our mind and bodies are micro compressed to possess power and speed beyond imagination.

You can join one of the groups and one group only - or risk being caught as a spy! The group with the most explorers is leading the NANO RACE.. You can decide which part of the microcosm you you want to be in. There are about six categories to join in starting from being Lab Mice, rocket scientists, mediating monkeys, matrix hackers, lost luckies and evil diddlers.

Dan Zen who created it says ”… the race was to see if we could get a community type game going through the facebook groups along the roleplaying lines of the Blimp races we did back in the 90’s. From the uptake… it did not quite catch on. Maybe some more pushing would help - I liked the setting of nanotech ;-)”

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