Gadgets

Your Kindle Gets Heavier As You Add Ebooks To It

Moustachioed UC Berkeley computer science professor John Kubiatowicz told the New York Times that your Kindle gets heavier when you add ebooks. Don’t worry, though, you won’t feel it with your hand, or with any scale that we’ve ever created.


July 23, 2008
Science

Nanotube Scale Weighs One Atom at a Time

Yesterday we got a peek at the combined power of nanotubes–technology that makes a rope-driven space elevator feasible–but what can just one do on its own? Berkeley researchers have discovered that one nanotube can be used as a tiny platform to determine the mass of a single atom.