Instead of rebuilding the roads damaged by the harsh winter in London, a guerrilla gardener Steve Wheen has planted some miniature flowers and trees to create sanctuaries of tranquility in broken urban places. These mini gardens, though not that attractive as normal gardens, has successfully brought the old city and old roads with new appearances, and add some new fun to the urban life as well.
Wait, wait, what you’ve already seen from the image isn’t the world’s smallest microphone we’re here to argue. Actually, the smallest capacitor microphone built by Noshirvani University of Technology researcher Bahram Azizollah Ganji is merely 0.5 X 0.5 mm big, almost invisible to the naked eyes. However, it comes with really high sensitivity and low power consumption, and can be widely used for a variety of purposes such as diagnosis of cardiac problems or marine surveillance.
Developed in 1932, the 8mm film was once rather popular around the world and was recorded in the history as “the world’s smallest film ever used in movie-making”. Nowadays, even though the 8mm film is no longer a trend, we can still try it with these tiny Fuuvi Bee 8mm Cameras. They’re mini-sized, with a weight of merely 39 g, but are built with a CMOS lens that can capture retro videos of 640×480 resolution or images of 1280×960 resolution. Undoubtedly they’re not the best cameras for photographers, they’re indeed the smartest ones to create retro styled videos or images.
Sponsored by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), AeroVironment has created a tiny mechanical flying robot that can fly as real birds. The mini robot is shaped like a hummingbird, remotely-controlled without an external power source to fly, hover, mover forward and backward in the air.
The Lenovo Company has recently launched its Windows 7-based IdeaCentre Q180, which is announced to the world’s smallest desk-top computer.
Apparently the computers will become much smaller than we’ve ever imagined, because we people may finally serve as part of the computer. Or in other words, the computer is rightly built in human bodies. Put forward by a team from Washington University, the new contact lenses are embedded with a mini computer that enables people to read their emails directly via the contact lenses. The mini computer’s circuits are made from layers of metal, only several nanometres thick and thus thin enough for comfortable wearing. But is it safe to have circuits in our eyes? That still needs to be further researched and developed.
With everything, such as the cellphones and the tablet, turns to become much thinner and lighter than before, the accessories made for them is gonna in the same trend too. From Giesecke & Devrient, the new nano-SIM now comes with a smaller size, measuring merely 12mm x 9mm, which is 60 percent smaller than the classic model. Still, the new SIM is 15% thinner too. That’s quite exciting news as we may soon get everything thin and lightweight. But is that a good thing? I don’t know.
This Mini Desktop Computer must have tricked your eyes, as it looks like small toys on the picture. But it is “announced” to be real computer available for use in the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]
With his deep love and passion towards his hometown San Francisco, artist Scott Weaver has spent 35 years assembling this mini structure using about 100000 toothpicks. Specially, he also built a “visiting line” which can let a ball roll throughout the entire city. Superb! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Well, do these Canon Miniature System Cameras indicate that our digital cameras also function as USB flash drivers now? Or should we say USB flash drive is at last part of a camera so that we can enjoy a more convenient use? All those sound fine, because what I’m thinking now is to get one and take some new photos… Oh God, they look just so cute! [Read the rest of this entry...]
You’d like to play some golf with this Potty Putter when in the toilet? Well, it is probably a good idea to kill the time, but it is never a habit good for your health. So we sincerely suggest you use the Potty Putter in other places like bedrooms or offices. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Guess what, the Empire State, the White House, Eiffel Tower and other well-known architectures you see here are actually mini-sized sculptures constructed with toothpicks and all the toothpicks are combined together with only glue. Most incredibly, Steven Backman’s tiny work of the Eiffel Tower is made from just one toothpick and some other sculptures of his measure even less than a third of toothpicks in length. So amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]
For almost a thousand times I’ve been dreaming of a smart digital camera that can be directly plugged into my computer, until I see this Fuuvi Pick Mini Digital Camera. It runs on a MicroSD card and weighs merely 24g, and therefore making it a best choice for outdoors using. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Would anyone like to live in a mini apartment that measures only 23 square meters? I bet everybody will, if they’re to have the Red Nest by Paul Coudamy. Designed for an apartment in Paris, Paul has built a desk, a bed and a wardrobe in the small room. The most fantastic point is, however, a red-gloss sliding wall unit that can reveal or conceal sleeping area, dressing room and workspace. Apart from that, the designer has also hidden a bathroom behind a two-way mirror, as well as a WC behind the wardrobe doors. That’s so incredible!
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How to help the inhabitants enjoy a comfortable and convenient life though living in a minimum housing unit? Some institutes from the University of Karlsruhe have cooperated with a possible solution: the “Roll It” Experimental Housing. You gotta roll the mini house to shift between different sections—a bed with a table, an exercise cylinder, and a a kitchen with a sink. And the modular protype takes the very name from that act only.
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