Thursday, May 29, 2008

Do You Need A Microscopic Ramen Bowl? Well, Japan Has You Covered

Japanese scientists just keep coming up with new innovations. In the .00000001% of the time they're not tinkering with robots, apparently they do other stuff: like create microscopic noodle bowls.

The bowl, created in 2006, has a diameter of 1/25,000 of an inch. The purpose of creating the bowl was to develop nanotube-processing technology. Yeah, sure it was.

The ramen bowl experiment included a string of "noodles" that measured one-12,500th of an inch in length, with a thickness of one-1.25 millionth 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 said.

Thanks for clarifying.

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