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Vehicles
Extremely Confident Man Builds Extremely Tiny Car
4:45AM Dan Nosowitz | Possibly the smallest street-legal car in the world, the 39-inch high, 26-inch wide, cheekily-painted project was made by a British man out of one of those coin-operated children’s rides.
Peripherals
Munchkin-Chic Lingo Wireless Mouse Might Be the World’s Smallest
6:05PM John Herrman | Nobody asked for it, but here it is: the ‘world’s smallest‘ wireless mouse! This thumb-sized min-strosity will run for 15 hours on one charge, assuming you can go that long without losing it. More »
Gadgets
10 of the World’s Smallest Gadgets
3:00AM John Herrman | The diminishing size of gadgetry is about as certain as Moore’s law, and is generally good for us. But for some, size is an obsession, and smaller is always better. This is what they’ve wrought:
Hardware
Thecus N0204 miniNAS Makes the Unfortunate Claim of ‘World’s Smallest NAS’
2:50AM John Mahoney | I can’t think of another product category less served by the ol’ “world’s smallest” tag that gadget-makers continuously foam over than network storage drives. But, of course, here we have the “world’s smallest” NAS.
Screens
The Case For Small TVs
2:00AM Brian Lam | Common thought is to get a big TV. Hell, I want two. But instead, I put a 23-inch set in my livingroom for two months to see what it would be like.
Phones
Tiny, Adorable Walkman Phone Is Hard To Use Unless You’re Also Tiny and Adorable
8:57PM John Herrman | By the numbers, the KDDI Walkman Xmini phone is nothing special. Well, except for a few of the numbers: at 44mm wide and 18mm thick, the 1.8in screen phone is absolutely minuscule. More »
Peripherals
Landport Cubes Squeeze Powered Speakers In Just 2.5cm
8:48PM Kit Eaton | Portable speakers for MP3 players are two a penny, but not many are not far off a penny in size: Landport’s Cubes are though. They’re just an inch cube, but fit in stereo speakers, 3.5-mm jack plug, rechargeable batteries and a mini-USB port. They’ll run for 4-5 hours on a charge, too. Just don’t go expecting bone-rattling volume as they pump out a similarly tiny 0.8-watts. Out soon in Japan for $US25. [Slashgear] More »
Peripherals
3:30PM Nick Broughall | Apparently the CLX-3170 is the world’s smallest and quietest multi-function printer. We say apparently here because the last time Samsung told us they had a “first”, it turned out they were twisting the facts to suit the headline of their press release.
In any case, the printer measures in at 415mm x 360mm x 311mm, which does make it quite small. Noise levels are also restricted to 46dB, which is also fairly quiet. There’s also a direct USB interface so you don’t need to connect this to a PC, and it comes in both black or two-tone grey colours.
Does that make it the world’s smallest and quietest? Who cares? It’s definitely small and quiet – and with the price of rent soaring and my generation starting to get annoyed at the volume of “kids today”, those two features are highly desireable in any PC peripheral, let alone a MFP which costs $599.
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Samsung’s Latest Printer Is “World’s Smallest and Quietest” MFP, Apparently
3:30PM Nick Broughall | Apparently the CLX-3170 is the world’s smallest and quietest multi-function printer. We say apparently here because the last time Samsung told us they had a “first”, it turned out they were twisting the facts to suit the headline of their press release.
In any case, the printer measures in at 415mm x 360mm x 311mm, which does make it quite small. Noise levels are also restricted to 46dB, which is also fairly quiet. There’s also a direct USB interface so you don’t need to connect this to a PC, and it comes in both black or two-tone grey colours.
Does that make it the world’s smallest and quietest? Who cares? It’s definitely small and quiet – and with the price of rent soaring and my generation starting to get annoyed at the volume of “kids today”, those two features are highly desireable in any PC peripheral, let alone a MFP which costs $599.
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Science
Atomic Pen Writes World’s Smallest Possible Letters
3:15AM Jesus Diaz | Researches at Osaka University have been doing some really tiny writing lately, using their newly-invented atomic pen, which can draw atom by atom. The resulting letters, the words “Si” for silicon or “Yes” in Spanish, measure only 2 x 2 nanometers, roughly 40,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. According to Masayuki Abe, one of the project scientists, they have reached a limit impossible to surpass: More »
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