Taking the art of small print to a whole new level, physicists at Stanford University have created the world's smallest lettering, just 1.5 nanometres tall:
Colin Barras reports in New Scientist:
The researchers wrote a computer program that works out how to arrange the carbon monoxide molecules such that they scatter electrons into waves of a particular shape. The software also demonstrated how varying the energy of the electrons could produce different shapes from the same pattern of molecules.
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Reminds me of http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20090121
Requires a little knowledge of the unix system, where su will grant you privileges to preform commands as a system administrator (something that's not allowed for normal users).
..Yes, I'm a geek.
They say that using this could allow information to be packed in smaller spaces, but I wonder if really small letters would be the most efficient way to do that?
The boys and girls on the farm want you to know, Stamford, Connecticut is about 2,900 miles to the east of Palo Alto, California. The former is a minor city on the east coast of the U.S., the latter is the location of Leland Stanford's farm.
LOL, I wonder how many years I've been getting those two confused. Cheers, fixed!