Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Saturday, January 15, 2011

The world’s smallest book must be read using an electron microscope.

This first-ever nanoscale book was published as a work of art in April 2007. This book, called Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, measures 0.07 mm by 0.10 mm!! Each letter was carved on a polished piece of single crystalline silicon by a focused-gallium-ion beam. The beam had a minimum diameter of about 7 nanometers, or only 70 ATOMS!! The story is written on 30 microtablets, each measuring at about 11 by 15 microns.


Source: Nanowerk

Rupert Grint’s first car was an ice cream truck.

At age 18 he bought a fully functional ice cream truck, complete with a freezer, a kitchen with sinks, and musical bell. As you could have probably guessed, Grint is a BIT more well off financially than his onscreen persona Ron Weasley. (On the other hand, this car doesn’t fly). The young film star said that he has been interested in the ice cream industry ever since he was a child. If his movie career doesn’t pan out after the Harry Potter franchise comes to an end, at least he’ll have something to fall back on? He may need the job security too, seeing that he dropped out of school at age 16!



Source: Monsters and Critics
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