Nanotechnology Consumer Products

Nanotechnology is becoming the most commonly discussed technology and is now applied for various consumer products. With this technology, the lifetime and the quality of the products will be increased. Following are some of existing products produced using nanotechnology.

Scratching Surfaces
Nano car wax that fills in those tiny cracks more effectively and gives a shinier vehicle. There are also nano products available to keep eye-wear and other optical devices cleaner, dryer, and more durable.

Clothing World
pants that repel water and won’t stain shirts and shoe inserts that keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter, and nano socks that don’t “stink” due to the inclusion of nanotech materials (nanosized sliver particles)

Multimedia
Nano-ceramic coatings are being utilized on photo quality picture paper to deliver sharper, higher quality “homemade” digital photo reproductions on your ink jet printer.

Electronics
Nanotechnology has enabled arcade size video games of yesteryear like Pong, Frogger, and PacMan to be replaced with very sophisticated home Playstations, X-Boxes, and Game Cubes that play “life like” Madden 2005, Grand Theft Auto, and Halo 2 video games.
Faster and more powerful computers, palm pilots (blackberries), flash drives, digital cameras and displays, cell phones, LCDs, LEDs, MP3’s, electronic ink displays, thin film batteries, and flexible electronics, etc...

Medicine
The biotech world also has many real world applications currently in use or under development that are, or will be, affecting our quality of life. Bandages embedded with silver nanoparticles are coming of age in the wound healing arena. And We now have drug delivery via a patch. A variety of time release thin films are now utilized on implantations into the human body (for example screws, joints, and stents) and these films are affecting the long term effectiveness of these devices.

These are very few nanotech applications. More can be found here