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[i2amroy]

We are kind of lucky we haven't developed cheap quantum computing to break encryption before we developed entanglement encryption.

Of course, we still need to get this stuff on the market and deployed in a number of essential places such as banking and military communication.

There's still time for a global security crisis seeing as quantum computing still has a head start...

Or we could just switch to one of the quantum-secure forms of cryptography, such as lattice-based cryptography.

[Arx]

Touchable holograms.

At least, they respond to a nearby object, and ultrasound should make a tactile response pretty trivial.

[miauw62]

and they mention at the end of the video that this could be used to make a projected keyboard

it's almost 2016 and people still dont understand what makes keyboards easy to use.

[ChairmanPoo]

and they mention at the end of the video that this could be used to make a projected keyboard

Funny thing is that there already are projected keyboards in the market

http://www.ctxtechnologies.com/products/vk-200-keyfob-virtual-keyboard/

[Telgin]

Sure, but it has no tactile feedback, which is a very important part of using a keyboard.  I'm sure it's not the only cause of it, but I ham fist typing a whole lot more on my smartphone than on a keyboard.

If we could produce a projected keyboard with that technology that had tactile feedback then that would be a huge improvement.

[Eagleon]

Q-carbon, a new allotrope of carbon? Ferromagnetism, superior glowyness, can be made into diamond at room temperature and pressure and on the scale of 20-500nm. Sounds promising for all-carbon electronics, maybe even a candidate material for refrigerator magnets.

[TheBiggerFish]

Whooooooa.

Corroborated, or just stated?

[Bumber]

... maybe even a candidate material for refrigerator magnets.

This is wonderful news! I can scarcely believe our good fortune!

Carbon has been appointed as Boron Baron of the elements.

[wierd]

This would lend itself very well to photolithography.  A diamond layer on top of a traditional silicon wafer substrate, impregnated with doping agents to control cooling rates instead of agents intended to change electrical properties, would enable the normal patterning process used to make integrated circuits to make pure-carbon circuits.

Very interesting.

[Sirus]

Carbon is basically the Superman of elements at this point. Seems like every decade or so it gains new power and abilities out of nowhere

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

I like how one dude is literally 'I had no idea that was even possible'.

[Moghjubar]

We need a new, hip name for this tougher than diamond carbon, because Q-carbon is lame.  Thoughts?

[wierd]

Q disagrees with your assertion that his appellation is lame.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It really makes me wonder if there aren't super-applications for more elements that we're totally missing out on. Carbon is pretty special, but can you imagine finding something like that from Technetium?

[Eagleon]

Boron nitride is probably being tried as we speak, but from what it sounds like to me, in a broader sense they've pointed out a way to control supercooling of amorphous substances on that scale with that precision. They're bypassing the phase diagram entirely and using the motion of the cooling atoms themselves to adjust the pressures affecting the bonds. This might be kind of a big deal for all sorts of things. Superconductor research comes to mind - even if it can only be used for carbon, there's maybe the possibility of testing compounds encapsulated in diamond to bypass the need for diamond anvils and high-pressure kerjiggers, maybe in massive arrays of different materials and different crystallization speeds, and maybe all stabilized neatly at standard atmosphere ala Prince Rupert's Drop. I could be misunderstanding though.