Cornell Nanohelicopters Achieve 8rps

Logic Bomb points to "[a] New York Times article [free reg req] detailing this rather incredible bit of technological progress. From the article: 'This is the first true nano machine,' said Dr. Carlo D. Montemagno, professor of biological engineering at Cornell and senior author of the Science paper.' Nuff said." Well, perhaps not -- surely it's not the first tiny mechanical device. Stuff That Matters links to this brief ZDNet coverage of the same thing, a bit more breathless.