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Title: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: Turk on 11 February 2011, 22:27:24

http://www.impactlab.net/2011/02/10/nothing-is-impossible-worlds-smallest-engraving-on-the-edge-of-a-razor-blade/

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: Lazydocker on 11 February 2011, 22:33:12

WOW! I wouldn't have the patience :-[ :-[

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: Danny on 11 February 2011, 22:44:08

he was on our local news a couple of days back, its a good job it pays well, the amount of time it takes!!

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: hercules on 11 February 2011, 23:16:36

thats nowt i once polished a turd

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 12 February 2011, 00:25:15

 :-? :o :o

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: Amigo on 12 February 2011, 02:06:03

Ok it's an achievement of sorts but heartbeat? between breaths? traffic vibration?
   I thought my classic car & obsolete diecast collecting was nerdy. ::)

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 12 February 2011, 12:47:33

That is very impressive! :y :y :y :y

What next, and engraving on the side of an atom? :D :D :D ;)

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: albitz on 12 February 2011, 13:47:26

WHY ?!! :-/ ::)

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: aaronjb on 12 February 2011, 13:52:12

I saw this in the news too - impressive.. I have enough trouble writing on a sheet of paper legibly, let alone on the edge of a razor blade ;)

I also remember seeing something about the world record for the amount of writing written on one 'side' of a grain of rice - which spanned into the thousands of letters.

As for engraving atoms, well.. we already make nano machinery constructed out of individually positioned single atoms, and you can get the complete text of the New Testament on a single 5mm x 5mm (that's 1/4" square to you folks ;)) silicon tablet..

Title: Re: Engraving on edge of razor blade
Post by: Chris_H on 12 February 2011, 13:59:49

There was a Richard Hammond programme on a few weeks back where they wrote the programme name on a human hair.  It was several orders of magnitude smaller than this but a computer (or two) did it.