Category Archives: worlds smallest

Little things, grand visions: The best small photography of 2020

Posted on by

WINNER 'First Light'. Bogra, Bangladesh

Global photography social network Agora’s latest contest tasked its community with taking portraits of small things, and the resulting highlights run the gamut from an extraordinary close up of a tiny damselfly to some shots of humans eclipsed by the scale and majesty of Mother Nature.

Continue Reading

Category: Photography, Technology

Tags: , , , , ,

Continue reading Little things, grand visions: The best small photography of 2020→

World’s smallest boat is thinner than a human hair

Posted on by

3DBenchy is a tiny 3D-printed boat, just a third of the thickness of a human hair

Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands have created what’s probably the world’s smallest boat. Measuring just 30 microns long, the tiny model was 3D printed as part of a project investigating how to make synthetic “microswimmers” in complex shapes.

Continue Reading

Category: 3D Printing, Technology

Tags: , , , ,

Continue reading World’s smallest boat is thinner than a human hair→

World’s smallest fine particle air pollution sensor fits inside a phone

Posted on by

Paul Maierhofer with his tiny particle sensor, the black square in the middle of the board

Air pollution involving very fine dust, such as PM2.5 particles, poses a serious threat to human health. Scientists in Austria have developed what they call the smallest particle sensor in the world, designed specifically to detect these harmful pollutants and offer a highly localized picture of air quality by being integrated into wearables and mobile devices.

Continue Reading

Category: Electronics, Science

Tags: , , , , ,

Continue reading World’s smallest fine particle air pollution sensor fits inside a phone→

World’s smallest micro-gripper is activated by light

Posted on by

A color-enhanced scanning electron microscope image of the micro-gripper (bottom right), with the head of a Formica polyctena ant added for scale

Some of the most useful tools are the ones that allow you to grab something. However, what if that “something” is very, very small? Well, that’s where a new light-activated micro-gripper could come in – it’s said to be the world’s smallest.

Continue Reading

Category: Science

Tags: , ,

Continue reading World’s smallest micro-gripper is activated by light→

World’s smallest microelectronic robot is propelled by “jet engines”

Posted on by

A pair of the microbots maneuver in liquid on top of a 1 cent euro coin

Although we’ve previously heard about various groups’ tiny “microbots,” a new one is actually claimed to be the world’s smallest microelectronic robot. What’s more, it moves by shooting out dual jets of bubbles.

Continue Reading

Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: , ,

Continue reading World’s smallest microelectronic robot is propelled by “jet engines”→

False Claims On Kickstarter: What’s New?

Posted on by

Kickstarter and its ilk seem like the Wild West when it comes to claims of being “The world’s most (Insert feature here) device!” It does add something special when you can truly say you have the world record for a device though, and [MellBell Electronics] are currently running a Kickstarter claiming the worlds smallest Arduino compatible board called Pico.

We don’t want to knock them too much, they seem like a legit Kickstarter campaign who have at time of writing doubled their goal, but after watching their promo video, checking out their Kickstarter, and around a couple of minutes research, …read more

Continue reading False Claims On Kickstarter: What’s New?→