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Nano Power for Nano Devices Patented

Posted by timothy on from the small-things-small-packages dept.

lperdue writes "Scientists at the Univ. Oklahoma at Tulsa have come up with a microscopic battery just a thousandth of a millimetre across ... and rated at a millionth of a milliamp. It's still a lab experiment, but then so was the semiconductor at one time."

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  1. Utility? by shfted! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lemme guess... we'll need a battery of these things to do anything useful.

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  2. A new candy! by Josh+Booth · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about we create a new kind of candy with this stuff. It would be like Poprocks but it electrocutes you with the millions of micro-batteries it has. I wonder how toxic these batteries are.

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    "We knew that the gum had spiders eggs in it, but the Haunta virus! Heh heh."
    --Krusty the Klown
    </quote>

    Oh, it's patented. Nevermind.

  3. Lab experiments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's still a lab experiment, but then so was the semiconductor at one time.

    Just like that blue cheese in my refrigerator was once milk.

  4. Microscopic battery by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Below is an attached a pic of the battery.

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  5. Battery size.. by adeyadey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is it an AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA battery then?

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