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Nano Scale Artworks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-thought-art-professors-graded-on-size dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "This article is a list of the best nano-scale artworks. It includes a 15 micron wide badger, a ten micron long guitar (which was actually played) and a 120 micron long New Scientist logo. Of course these are the images that got released to the press. In labs around the world people must have used their bleeding-edge technologies to make structures just to impress their friends. I wonder how many scientists' significant others have received nano-Valentines on Feb 14th?"

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  1. Badgers? by smitty97 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It includes a 15 micron wide badger
    Badgers? Badgers?! We dont need no stinking badgers!
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    1. Re:Badgers? by vivaoporto · · Score: 1, Funny

      Coming next: mushrooms and ... aw .... it's a snake, it's a snaaaaaake

    2. Re:Badgers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      >>Badgers? Badgers?! We dont need no stinking badgers!

      Perhaps if you built a giant wooden badger...

    3. Re:Badgers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      next, let's teach some poodles to fly!

  2. I love you this much by QMO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nano valentines: For when you only love a very tiny amount.

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  3. Well I for one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    openly accept my new microscopic God.

  4. Significant others by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder how many scientists' significant others have received nano-Valentines on Feb 14th?"

    Many -- it's an old trick.

    "Honey, for Valentine's, I made you a really beautiful, tiny guitar. The frame is from one piece! Here, take a look. Oh, wait, we need your laboratory-grade nano-scale microscope for this. You don't have one? Ah, crap, then we can't see it! Oh well, tough break, maybe we'll get a chance some other time."

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    1. Re:Significant others by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 2, Funny

      I made a mothers-day card back in 1995, a heart-shape and the word "MAMA" focused-ion-beam implanted into some GaAs (for want of a SO at the time). It was about 30um across, but I have long lost the picture. Do I get a prize?

  5. om the i-thought-art-professors-graded-on-size dep by jimstapleton · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, Taco, that's women and english professors...

    Well art professors /do/ grade on size, but typically it's in the opposite direction, the smaller the detail, the better.

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  6. better slogan by eclectro · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nano valentines: For when you care enough to send the very least.

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  7. A Guitar? by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So when is someone going to make the world's tiniest violin?

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  8. Small Instruments? by LordPhantom · · Score: 2, Funny

    a ten micron long guitar (which was actually played)

    I was horribly disappointed that they didn't make the "world's smallest violin".