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Undertoad · 07-17-2002, 09:48 AM

Thanks to Avi of Worth1000 for this one!

Miniaturization pushes on. Sandia National Laboratories works on MEMS, or MicroElectroMechanical Systems. It's amazing stuff - they're tiny little machines, with gears the size of blood cells. These make it possible to do things that have never been done before. They've put up an Image Gallery for all of us to enjoy, including a set showing tiny little live bugs walking across their tiny machines.

Those are the legs of a spider mite. The surface it's standing on is the micro machine.

Is the mite going to damage it? No! At the site there are movies of bugs walking across micro machines, and even sitting on a little platform getting spun around at high speed. The machines and bugs both survive.

07-17-2002, 09:48 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/17/2002: Micro bug on micro machine Thanks to Avi of Worth1000 for this one! Miniaturization pushes on. Sandia National Laboratories works on MEMS, or MicroElectroMechanical Systems. It's amazing stuff - they're tiny little machines, with gears the size of blood cells. These make it possible to do things that have never been done before. They've put up an Image Gallery for all of us to enjoy, including a set showing tiny little live bugs walking across their tiny machines. Those are the legs of a spider mite. The surface it's standing on is the micro machine. Is the mite going to damage it? No! At the site there are movies of bugs walking across micro machines, and even sitting on a little platform getting spun around at high speed. The machines and bugs both survive.