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Nanoguitar

Rock'n'roll researchers at Cornell University have created the world's smallest playable guitar. It looks like a Gibson Flying V, but you'll need a microscope to see it because it's only 0.025 millimetres long.

The strings are made from silicon bars, 150 by 200 nanometers in cross section - a nanometre is a billionth of a metre.



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Image: Cornell University

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