Nanhatten Project

Nanhatten Project
 n.— «Although Phoenix sketched out some design ideas for a desktop nanofactory in his report, he acknowledges that—short of a big-budget “Nanhatten Project,” as he calls it—a working nanofactory is at least a decade away, and possibly much longer.» —“Build Big by Thinking Small” Universe Today July 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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