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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 »
Design
Miniature Synthesiser Replicas Cast in Felt Will Rock Your Tiny Mind
1:50AM John Mahoney | Can’t afford a true vintage Mini Moog? Then how about the Mini-Est Moog—a 5-inch wide version made of felt by Etsy craftser pulsewidth? Have your pet mice been itching to form a synthpop trio? 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 »
Screens
12:00PM Nick Broughall | The name Maxon Electronics probably doesn’t mean too much to most of you, but that doesn’t mean you haven’t seen their stuff. They’re an Australian company with a history in two-way radios (exciting) and digital modems – they provide Telstra and BigPond over 400,000 of their wireless NextG modems.
But their most recent product – the Visimax portable projector – is the start for bigger and better things for the company. The projector itself is tiny – it happily fits into the palm of your hand (it measures in at 27 x 58 x 60mm) and weighs just 120 grams. Yet it can throw a picture up to 60 inches in size without blinking its little LED powered eye.
It has a VGA resolution, 15 lumens worth of brightness, a contrast ratio of 200:1 and a manual focus dial. There’s a mono speaker on board, but you can output stereo sound via the headphone port or the composite video cable that comes in the box.
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Maxon Visimax Projector Is Freakin’ Tiny!
12:00PM Nick Broughall | The name Maxon Electronics probably doesn’t mean too much to most of you, but that doesn’t mean you haven’t seen their stuff. They’re an Australian company with a history in two-way radios (exciting) and digital modems – they provide Telstra and BigPond over 400,000 of their wireless NextG modems.
But their most recent product – the Visimax portable projector – is the start for bigger and better things for the company. The projector itself is tiny – it happily fits into the palm of your hand (it measures in at 27 x 58 x 60mm) and weighs just 120 grams. Yet it can throw a picture up to 60 inches in size without blinking its little LED powered eye.
It has a VGA resolution, 15 lumens worth of brightness, a contrast ratio of 200:1 and a manual focus dial. There’s a mono speaker on board, but you can output stereo sound via the headphone port or the composite video cable that comes in the box.
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Gadgets
Tiny Imovio iKit Handtop Computer is a Decade Too Late
8:57PM Kit Eaton | At first glance, the iMe (sorry!) iKit handtop computer sounds pretty fandabbydozy: it’s a tiny, folding, 2.8-inch screen, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi-enabled, webcam and Bluetooth-packing, multimedia-playing computer. But then you learn that it’s got just a 3-hour battery life in operation, doesn’t have 3G connectivity and if you even want to connect a mobile broadband dongle you’ll have to get one with an “optional” internal USB connection. It’s basically the tiny portable PDA computer we all fancied back in the 90s. More »
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 »
Science
Scientists Demo New Nanoprinting Tech with Microscopic Golden Olympic Logos
7:44PM Kit Eaton | Scientists at Northwestern University have demonstrated a new nano-printing technology by printing the Beijing Olympics emblem 15,000 times, each logo so small the whole print run fits inside one square centimeter. 2,500 of the images, made 20,000 90-nanometer dots, would fit on a grain of rice. The polymer pen lithography uses an array of millions of tiny flexible polymer “pens” that can be used to make marks on various different nano-scales, and in this case deposit “ink” made of 16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid onto a gold substrate (what else would do, in Olympic season?) The team thinks that the technique, which can print out tiny dot-matrix imagery, will find uses in computational tools, medical diagnostics and the pharmaceutical industry. The study is published today in Science Express. [Physorg] More »
Science
Scientists Do Micro-Origami, Make Tiny Drug-Delivery Package
12:15AM Gizmodo US Edition | Researchers at USC’s Information Sciences Institute produced this amazing pyramid, around 30 microns across, which may one day be used to deliver precise micro- or nano-doses of medication. The structures, dubbed “voxels” are made of silicon, cut into flats and then folded up and sealed to enclose tiny volumes of space inside. The team hasn’t stopped at pyramids either— they’ve tried flat envelopes, cubes and partial dodecahedra, but these don’t close together the way the pyramid does. More »
Peripherals
Super Talent 8GB Flash Drive is World’s Smallest
8:34PM Haroon Malik | The chaps at Super Talent are not only incredibly modest, talented and super, but they must also be fantastically tiny to have put together the world’s smallest 8GB flash drive. (Flawless logic, I’m sure you’ll agree.) Retailing at US$35, the price is pretty reasonable, at least until you drop it into your chest hair and lose it forever.
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