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Originally Posted by BadNick
With Spring almost here, they're slowly shrinking into invisibility
...but even if we can't see them THEY'RE THERE! THEY'RE ALWAYS THERE!!!
This minuscule snowman, about a fifth the width of a human hair, is not made out of snow. It's constructed of
two tiny tin beads that are usually used to calibrate an electron microscope, and welded together with platinum.
It's built by David Cox, a nanotech expert at the Quantum Detection Group of Britain's National Physical Laboratory.
The remarkable flourish of his smiling snowman is its little happy face, carved into the top orb using a focused ion beam. |
I found the video about this feat:
I think you should feature it in the 'miniature modem' thread (which I started sometime yesterday, somewhere in Found on the Net)