Recently a new single-layer material—graphene—has been discovered.  This is a material where Dirac points in the fermionic spectrum lead to very unusual properties, including transport and impurity states.   I will argue that these properties are not unique to graphene and in fact are a direct consequence of the Dirac spectrum in the fermionic excitation sector.  Strong similarities with d-wave superconductors, superfluid ³He, p-wave superconductors and other materials with similar energy spectra hint at a unifying perspective.  I will argue that this discovery signifies the emergence of a new class of Dirac materials, in which nontirivial properties emerge as a direct consequence of Dirac spectrum of excitations.