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Rules: First to guess (know?) what it is plus provide a link to image used wins and gets to host the GQ next Saturday.
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The Gizmo is the pic on the left. The compass is to help you find your way;-) Obscure visual "hints" will replace the compass so hit reload/refresh occassionaly.
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New foo-lish images will be provided as deemed necessary by your host (that's me) and may be viewed through the amazing technology of reloading/refreshing the page.
On your mark
Get set
GO GIZMO GO ...
Is this good enough?
Can you do better?
Is it one of these?
Syzygy
Congratulations, mack!
Cornell researchers move beyond 'nano' to 'atto' to build a scale sensitive enough to weigh a virus
submicroscopic devices, whose size is measured in nanometers (the width of three silicon atoms), are called nanoelectromechanical systems, or NEMS. But the masses they measure are now down to attograms. The mass of a small virus, for example, is about 10 attograms. An attogram is one-thousandth of a femtogram, which is one-thousandth of a picogram, which is one-thousandth of a nanogram, which is a billionth of a gram.
The researchers manufactured the tiny cantilevers out of silicon and silicon nitride. Imagine a diving board 4 micrometers long and 500 nanometers wide. Just as a diving board will vibrate if you jump on it, these tiny cantilevers can be set into motion by an applied electric field, or by hitting them with a laser. The frequency of vibration can be measured by shining a laser light on the device and observing changing reflection of the light.
Note: in the B&W pic the blob on the cantilever is a virus! I still think ficking a switch and having a light bulb come on is magic ...
Explanation of hints:
First two: cantilever bridge and cantilever brakes.
Next three: various weights/measures: pint, carat, ounce-troy.
Sixth: depiction of the smallest measurement units on the ISU scale.
Not shown until now:
Seventh: virus (HIV) similar to what it is designed to weigh/measure.
Eight and Nine: weighing pumkins and babies.
Excellent gizmo and presentation, iamlost.
Syzygy
Mack :)
That was one of the coolest gimo presentations I have ever seen, well done.
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Looking forward to next week.
Looking forward to you winning/doing this again... perhaps this is a 'calling' :)
Great job! Very entertainingly done.
Peter
