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Old 01-04-2008, 08:10 PM   #1
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January 4, 2008: Teeny Ted’s Turnip Triumph

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It’s a big feat of the tiniest proportions. Simon Fraser University’s Nano Imaging Lab has produced the world’s smallest published book.

The only catch — you’ll need a scanning electron microscope to read it.

At 0.07 mm X 0.10 mm, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town is a tinier read than the two smallest books currently cited by the Guinness Book of World Records: the New Testament of the King James Bible (5 X 5 mm, produced by MIT in 2001) and Chekhov’s Chameleon (0.9 X 0.9 mm, Palkovic, 2002).

(By way of comparison, the head of a pin is about 2 mm).

The production of the nanoscale book was carried out at SFU by publisher Robert Chaplin, with the help of SFU scientists Li Yang and Karen Kavanagh. The work involved using a focused-gallium-ion beam and one of a number of electron microscopes available in SFU’s nano imaging facility.

With a minimum diameter of seven nanometers (a nanometer is about 10 atoms in size) the beam was programmed to carve the space surrounding each letter of the book.

The book is made up of 30 microtablets, each carved on a polished piece of single crystalline silicon, and has its own International Standard Book Number, ISBN-978-1-894897-17-4.

The story, written by Chaplin’s brother Malcolm Douglas Chaplin, is a fable about Teeny Ted’s victory in the turnip contest at the annual county fair.

Considered an intricate work of contemporary art, the book is available in a signature edition (100 copies) from the publisher, through the SFU lab.

I guess between the book and the electronic microscope to see it, it would be a pretty expensive gift.

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Old 01-04-2008, 08:30 PM   #2
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I think I'll wait until they turn it into a mini series.
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Old 01-04-2008, 09:06 PM   #3
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How terrible that people with access to these famtabulous machines should use them for such trivia -eh, beest?
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Old 01-04-2008, 09:39 PM   #4
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Telling tales out of school, Monster?
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Old 01-04-2008, 10:05 PM   #5
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Old 01-05-2008, 12:50 AM   #6
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Has Bruce been using the electron microscope to find..er..I mean EXAMINE his penis again? hahaha
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Old 01-05-2008, 01:45 AM   #7
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I wonder what they use as a bookmark.

I wonder who did the pictures.

I wonder what the storyline is like.

And I wonder if they were planning to print "The Erotic Adventures of Two Young Sluts who Love to F***", but the pages kept getting fused together...
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Old 01-05-2008, 09:19 AM   #8
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Hey, quit plagiarizing!
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Old 01-06-2008, 07:45 PM   #9
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That is crazy!
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Old 01-06-2008, 07:48 PM   #10
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Old 01-07-2008, 03:20 AM   #11
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It's all about reading in between the lines...
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Old 01-07-2008, 10:53 AM   #12
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So whats next on IOTD's "Super Mega-Fantastic NANO week?"
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Old 01-07-2008, 01:23 PM   #13
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Facinating.

Here's a link to a more-zoomed in shot of the first page ...

http://www.robertchaplin.ca/asset/im...ew02_teeny.jpg
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Old 01-07-2008, 04:35 PM   #14
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Wow, nice font, cool layout. Bit tricky to read though.
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Old 01-08-2008, 09:20 AM   #15
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So whats next on IOTD's "Super Mega-Fantastic NANO week?"
Pics of Monster's privates? hahahaha
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