Thursday Lifeform Geeks-With-Way-Too-Much-Spare-Time Blogging
How could I not post this, as cute as it is? Once seen, never forgotten, from National Geographic ( and it’s not even April 1 yet) :
March 28, 2006? “Pampering pets with designer goods isn’t so unusual?and now even your houseflies can get outfitted in style.
An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of “designer” lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly’s 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.Manufacturing firm Micreon GmbH submitted the insect’s picture for the Bilder der Forschung (Photos of Science) 2005 competition. Selected images were on display last week in a Munich shopping center.
Micreon, based in Hannover, Germany (see map), created the fly’s eyewear using ultrafast laser micro-machining. The firm notes on its Web site that the process can create objects with high precision at scales of less than a thousandth of a millimeter. “
?Victoria Gilman
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