LONDON, England (Reuters) – Nearly 150 years ago it was no more than a concept by a visionary scientist, but researchers have now created a minuscule motor that could lead to the creation of microscopic nanomachines.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/02/01/nanomachine.reut/index.html
I always suspected Nano was really a robot.
Scot-bot 
I wondered why he was always asking me if I knew where Sarah Connor was… 
Wow, what a horrible and inaccurate paragraph. I read the article
twice and I still don’t know why this engine is different from
current nanotechnology. I guess I have to get my hands on a copy of
Nature. It’s pretty cool that they waited exactly 150 years to build it.
nanomachineS? Don’t they think that one is far more than we need? 
it’s the little things that count…
Huhhh…?
“It is a machine mechanism that is going to take molecular machines a step forward to the realization of the future world of nanotechnology. Things that seem like a Harry Potter film now are going to be a reality.”
It wasn’t a very well written article. All I got from it was that someday we’ll be able to turn Nano into a water goblet. (I’ll bet the water would taste pretty odd).
djm
BBC was a little better…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6320781.stm
Well, I always said I wanted to be protean. I’d turn myself into a water-goblet just for the crack. Which, by the way, is the end you’d be drinking from. Did you say something about the taste? 
Ah. Well constructed, informative sentences:
Poor metaphors, though:
Apparantly, there’s a point at which even the media can’t
dumb down a concept. I guess it could be thought of as a
diode for particles other than electrons…
Yeah, magic’s not a great comparison. I think it’ll be closer to the T1000.
I made a diode for goats once
But they got better.
djm