Smaller is a Big Thing

A cute video explaining Intel's tiny transistor:

Smaller is a Big Thing The Smallinator...Haf learns about a big change in small from Intel. A transistor is the fundamental building block of all modern electronics...so how can we make them smaller? Artist Geoff McFetridge takes a friendly frolic through the scientific and engineering wonders of the ever shrinking, ever better transistor that Intel is now creating that measures 45 nanometers. 400 of them can fit inside the size of a human red blood cell.

Tiny Camera Module

Shrinking Camera Sizes to Match Shrinking Phones

In his article from Jun 15, 2007, Cheng Hung writes about Tessera Technologies Inc’s camera lens. As cell phones loose their bulk, this lens, at a fraction of the size of conventional camera modules, will help create a better, smaller, camera phone.

IBM's Chip

IBM Chip to Let You Download an HD Movie in One Second

Here is another article about IBM's chips, published on April 2 2007 at Gizmodo. They talk about fiber optics and the practicality of it. It is interesting to look at how much progress was made in less than two years.

IBM's Chip Timeline

Breakthroughs in Chips Over a Decade

IBM shows a time line of their breakthroughs in chips over the past decade. Technology has changed considerably over these 10 short years. Breakthroughs like these are what contribute to a smaller, more efficients technology.

USB Sticks of the Near Past

USB sticks are a great example of how technology is shrinking down near to a point of nonexistence. Not only is the physical size shrinking, but so is the price realtive to storage space.

As explained by the article
Netac Technology OnlyDisk U220: World's Smallest Secure USB Drive? from July 12, 2006, the smallest USB stick was Netac Technology's OnlyDisk U220. It weighed in at half an ounce and measured in at 2 inches tall. The highest capacity was 2GB, which cost $92.

As of March 16, 2007 Kingmax Super Stick USB won the title of producing the smallest USB stick, showed in the article World’s Smallest USB Stick – This Week. This one is only 34mm x 12.4mm x 2.2mm and comes with up to 4GB of storage.

Now, the question is, where can we go from there? Size is no longer an issue when it come it small storage spaces? Will we get to the point where we have full hard drive s the size of a nickel? And what would that do for technology and society?

Fractal Geometry Explained

fractal geometry beautiful math