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John Brownlee

AT 12:00 AM
Wednesday November 5, 2008

Power On Self Test

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Power On Self Test: Our New President in Nanolithography

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4 Comments

dacker

#1 – 9:16 AM November 5, 2008

I think this is fake. It looks rendered rather than nanotech. The edges are too sharp, especially where the text and objects meet the substrate.

Rob Beschizza

#2 – 12:34 PM November 5, 2008

The use of a standard font, too, like the machines that make these things do postscript.

Ryan Waddell

#3 – 12:37 PM November 5, 2008

Am I the only one that saw those heads, and had the thought "Hey, kinda looks like oompa-loompa heads"?

dculberson

#4 – 12:47 PM November 5, 2008

Dacker, if you follow the link, his flickr set then links to his page about how it's done:

http://www.nanobama.com/how/how.htm

Seems pretty legit to me.

Rob, it is printed then turned into a mask, then the tubes are "grown," so likely their output device did have postscript.

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