Check out the picoSpin website. This company is coming out with a 45 MHz permanent magnet NMR in 1Q2011 that produces FID’s so the user may collect FT spectra. The instrument is somewhat larger than a toaster and is sensitive enough for many undergraduate and industrial applications. The customer must provide the computer and data workup software.
The other company out there offering non-superconducting FT systems is Anasazi Instruments. They have been refurbishing the fleet of 60 & 90 MHz CW systems sitting in storage rooms throughout academia into FT instruments.
I am jazzed. I think we might get one. OK. It is low field and low sensitivity. But that is often enough. For an in-process check very often you’re just looking for one or two diagnostic peaks to collapse or grow to indicate reaction progress. This instrument could fit the bill.
I think many people will agree that the big supercon systems on the market, while well endowed with capability, often provide wildly more capacity than is actually used. A sort of creeping featurism. This instrument is utterly utilitarian in conception and priced at $20,000.
I think this is a welcome addition to the selection of NMR instruments for the chemical field and I wish them well in their endeavors.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Gaussling,
Greetings, this is John Price, president of picoSpin, LLC. Thanks for the post! We are just starting to get the news out about this product. Our first trade show will be the March ACS in Anaheim. If you are going to be there, stop by our booth and we’ll give you live demo.
Regards,
John
Remember the Varian A-60? A 60 MHz toaster is not inconceivable given the Halbach array below,
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1.17434 tesla is required
“A Ninth Circuit Federal judge ruled today that spin alignment violated the “Equal Protection” clause of the US Constitution. She further ruled that spin inversion was fraught with unknown hazards requiring EPA and Homeland Severity reviews.” Meanwhile, a class action lawsuit alleging spin precession-caused autism was snuggled in Gloria Allcommie’s crimson-clad bosom looking for victims.
picoSpin’s mailroom staff, bludgeoned into Guantanimo Bay for protective custody, were rumored to have said, “If this is the way President Obama treats his prisoners, he doesn’t deserve to have any.”
I’ve wondered about the autism connection when dealing with NMR staff …
Uncle Al has logged into a Bruker before putting his tube into a too short autosampler queue. Once. If you ever hit the diagonal arrow key you are also toast. NMR staff is all-suffering even on a good day. OTOH, it does require a certain sort of individual…
DSM-4 atrocities aside, autism is on the steep upswing in two groups: the affluent especially, but also the indigent with free medical clinics. We seek a sudden steeply rising input that is suddenly in-kind disordering fetal brains.
Ultrasonic womb scans cook the fetus for a cumulative hour or more during “routine” checkups. Look at interface impedence jumps for aqueous amniotic fluid, skull, aqueous cerebrospinal fluid, and fatty brain. That they show so well tells you it is working. Numbers,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstetric_ultrasonography
http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/
“The Schedule” “What about Safety?”
“Although certain harmful effects in cells are observed in a laboratory setting,” ALTHOUGH? The fetus of a “caring” parent is mercilessly cooked. 1985 FDA-allowed maximum power was 180 mW/cm^2. WHOA! The Statison V veterinary LIPUS device affects fetal development, and it is 30-80 mW/cm^2.