Posts Tagged «ibm» IBM creates world’s smallest movie with a
handful of precisely placed atoms May 1, 2013 at 7:14 am IBM’s
bleeding-edge nanophysicists have created the world’s smallest
movie (embedded below), by moving single carbon atoms around a
copper surface. The film, called A Boy and His Atom, is 60
seconds long and made of 242 individual stop-motion frames, with
each frame being roughly 50 atoms wide. So you have some idea of
this truly minute scale, a human hair is about 1,000,000 atoms
wide. If IBM so wished, it could convert A Boy And His Atom into
a feature film, and still fit the frames within the width of a
human hair. IBM Research uses supercomputer tech to “harness the
energy of 2,000 suns” April 23, 2013 at 6:27 am A collaboration
of Swiss institutions, including IBM Research, has announced
that it’s developing a highly efficient, low-cost photovoltaic
system that’s capable of concentrating “the power of 2,000
suns.” The collaboration claims that the system, which is
targeted at dry regions