Gizmodo: world's smallest

Tiny Electric Guitar Has Normal-Sized Frets

Charlie White — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:15:00 EST

Behold the smallest electric guitar in the world. Well, it's called the "smallest precision electric guitar available," because even though its body is just 1/6 the size of a normal instrument, its fretboard is the same size as an ordinary guitar. This is not a toy; it has a couple of pickups that can give you your choice of humbucking or single coil sound, and tuning machine heads that look pretty solid. The makers even tried to mimic the cellular structure of wood with its plastic body, injected with air bubbles in an attempt to give it more resonance despite its diminutive stature. Plus, holding his guitar will make you look really, really big. If that's important to you, it'll cost you $799.95. Kinda reminds us of that little Martin Backpacker. Click through to the next page for a big pic of this tiny electric ax.

[Hammacher Schlemmer, via TFTS]

World's Smallest Radio Is Just Atoms Wide, Still Needs AAA Battery

Wilson Rothman — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:24:49 EDT

University of California researcher Chris Rutherglen shows off a radio made of carbon nanotubes, measuring "a few atoms across," that's 1,000 times smaller than today's radio technology.

As you see in the video, the bummer is that the teeny weeny radio still needs what looks like a AAA battery to power up. This doesn't have Rutherglen and his prof, Peter Burke, too upset. It's a breakthrough that will spread, as they explain in their research paper:

"Though we have only demonstrated the critical component of the entire radio system out of a nanotube (the demodulator), it is conceivable in the future that all components could be nanoscale, thus allowing a truly nanoscale wireless communications system."

The sky's the limit for this stuff: they're already talking smart-dust computing, with meteorological, geophysical, biological and of course military implications. [BBC News]

Holide HX-2142: World's Smallest DV? Perhaps World's Crappiest, Too

Charlie White — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:46:07 EDT

This is probably just a piece of junk, but at least it's small—the Holide HX-2142 digital video recorder and camera is called "the smallest DV in the world." No dimensions are given, but judging from the size of its USB plug, this is truly tiny and thin camcorder that's down to spycam size.

There's just 2MB of onboard memory, but it has an SD/MMC flash memory slot, so conceivably you could record quite a bit of 12fps video at 640x480. The specs say a 64MB SD card can hold 20 minutes of its video. But hey, it's the world's smallest DV! No word on what "DV" stands for in this instance.

Don't expect broadcast quality, but this might be able to give you video as good as most cellphones are capable of delivering. Yuck. No pricing or availability were forthcoming, but if it costs more than $30, this must be some kind of joke. – Charlie White

Product Page [Holide Industry, via Red Ferret]

World's Smallest PSU

Travis Hudson — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:15:07 EST

Mini-box announced what it calls the world's smallest power supply on Thursday, the picoPSU-120. There are no fans and it runs completely silent. Roughly the size of two AA batteries, it actually plugs directly into the motherboard's ATX power connector. It can power the ATX motherboard connection, peripherals and hard drive. It is said that this can power up to 3GHz P4 machines, but it was obviously designed for low-power CPUs. This could serve a great purpose for the modder extraordinaires and at $49.95 it isn t too bad of a deal.

World's Smallest PC Power Supply Introduced [Extremetech]