So what exactly is nanotechnology? One of the problems facing nanotechnology is the confusion about its definition. Most definitions revolve around the study and control of phenomena and materials at length scales below 100 nm and quite often they make a comparison with a human hair, which is about 80,000 nm wide.
Scientists currently debate the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as any new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials,[5] and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted.
Nanotechnology has finally made its way into the bedroom, with a new type of condom that uses nanoscale silver foam.
The condom for women, made by a Chinese company called Blue Cross, uses "introduced American scientific research achievement and advanced technology of nanometer-silver and physical foaming".
The "double-barrier technology, white and fine foam" is sprayed internally "to bring the effects of integration of conception control, antibiosis and lubrication into a whole." No pun intended, we're sure.
Every condom has a silver lining
The "formulated condom concentrate" contains polyvinyl alcohol resin and nano-silver, the antibacterial material that is increasingly found in air conditioners, washing machines and baby bottles.
However, there has been concern that nano-scale silver particles may get into the water supply and potentially disrupt benign bacteria at water treatment plants.
The Blue Cross website is silent on whether the foam condom has been approved by any recognised consumer safety or reproductive health organisations, but you shouldn't worry too much about that, as there's no indication where you can buy the contraceptive anyway.
If the idea of a foam condom isn't dissuasive enough, its mode of operation might tip the balance: it needs to be used no more than five minutes before sex. And then again immediately afterwards.
Instead of taking a pill at some indeterminate time before one might be offered some sex the Viagra sheets are of course on your bed. So that you automatically start to get dosed with it when you actually go to bed with someone.
Spanish genius Pep Torres, 44, has used nanotechnology to infuse the sex drug’s arousing ingredient into the fibers of a bed sheet. When people get into bed the viagra soaks into their skin and gets into the bloodstream – which could reek havoc if you were hoping for an early night. Pep said: “It started as a joke after we saw a German study that said businessmen get little sex because they are too tired from work." SEX BETWEEN THE SHEETS HAS A WHOLE NEW MEANING!!