(AP Photo/The Nakao Hamaguchi Laboratory of the University of Tokyo)
Those wacky Japanese scientists. Not only are they proficient at making today’s technology even smaller for the future, they can’t help but show off just how small they can make things. Take food, for example. A professor and his class from a prominent Japanese University have created a noodle bowl so small, you have to break out a microscope to see it. I wouldn’t try to eat it though.
University of Tokyo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Masayuki Nakao revealed yesterday that he and his students created a noodle bowl out of carbon nanotubes with a diameter of only 1/25,000 of an inch.
“We believe it’s the world’s smallest ramen bowl, with the smallest portion of noodles inside, though they are not edible,” Nakao explained.
Though the microscopic noodle bowl was created as a project aimed at developing nanotube-processing technology, Professor Nakao further commented, “The achievement was mostly for fun.”
The development of the nanotube noodle bowl seems rather recent, but it was actually fabricated back in December of 2006. The project, however, wasn’t fully revealed until a picture of the microscopic noodle bowl was entered into a recent microphotography contest.
Now if they could only make a microscopic Kirin to go along with the noodle bowl, then we would have a complete meal.
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