GSN Labs

The metallic filaments were spread out in a shiny single layer, like a swatch of gold lamé fabric. Except this sample represented on Wilson Hart’s monitor was only a billionth of a meter across.  While Wilson stared at the screen, the particles began to align themselves like metal filings in a magnetic field.  At first the texture formed parallel ridges, like looking at a tiny plowed field observed from the air.  The ridges grew and thickened and began to separate into individual threads.  Threads became strands, then lumpy cords twisting into bulky cables which twisted some more until they doubled back on themselves. 

Wilson clicked down on the magnification again to watch the nanites’ progress.  On another screen, a separate run of nanites were curving into beautiful toroidal shapes.  Like spokes, straight segments spiraled out from the central thread. Microscopic lengths of tinsel nesting and spinning, the toroids bulged and expanded, divided and expanded again. 

Wilson made note of the specific shapes produced by the two different enzymes and watched the nanites grow at an exponential rate.

Marla Jones

Marla Jones was the first consumer to purchase a tube of CS-Products’ Tanning Crème.  She smoothed on a thick coat even before she put on her swimsuit in an effort to cancel out any tan lines and trotted out to her back yard.  Already, her skin felt smooth and dry—she hated that greasy feeling and noted with approval the lotion had quickly been absorbed into her skin.  It even felt kind of tingly and warm.

Inside her body, the nanites worked their way past fat cells and blood vessels, muscle and soft tissue, coming to rest against bone.  There they began to replicate and attach themselves to the individual phosphorus and calcium atoms, removing them one by one like so many microscopic bricks to be carried away from a construction renovation.  Gradually, the bone was replaced by the hyperalloy.  Once the framework was in place, the nanites began to differentiate into other types of tissue. Wilson’s toroids replaced muscle, while other forms mimicked columns of neurons and the simpler networks of nerve cells.