Nanotech Squeezes Bible onto a Pinhead

In a move that would have made Gutenberg's head explode, Israeli scientists have printed the entire Old Testament onto a silicon chip that is only 1/1000th of an inch square—tinier than a pinhead. This "nano-Bible project," developed at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, demonstrated a nanotech building process that might someday be used to store a person's medical history in his DNA.

Scientists wrote the Bible by utilizing a focused ion beam (FIB) generator shooting tiny Gallium ions that etched the manuscript onto a gold surface, guided by a newly developed computer program written at Technion. Developing the program took more than three months, but writing the full text took only 90 minutes.

"The nano-Bible project demonstrates the miniaturization at our disposal," explains Professor Uri Sivan, the head of the University’s Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, who conceived it. "This research could lead to the creation of more advanced miniature structures—and imaging—on a nanometric scale, advances in storing information in very small spaces, and the use of DNA molecules to store information."—Robert E. Calem

Comments

[Eric H]

Anybody know how this storage density compares to that of state of the art hard drives?

[Eric H]

Of course, with this as a storage device, we could have computers storing data in binary and Hebrew! Will they build a Hebrew CPU next?

[Myriam]

Yes ,this last nanobible is amazing but it is not a breakthrought. I saw the first nanobible 2 years ago on this site www.crystal-bible.com. The major interrest is the possibility to wear close to your heart this edition and the possibility to read it with a personal pen microscope! Check this site out!

[Abe Bird]

Researchers from Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, were able to pack the 308,428-word Hebrew Bible on a 0.5 millimetre square. This is a breakthrough. They took a larger script (some 10 million bits!) and packed it in smaller space than the previous action you mentioned. They also used another technic.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071220222917.htm

http://nanowerk.com/news/newsid=3742.php

http://rbni.technion.ac.il/news/entireBible.html

[alex]

Whatever you weirdos. This is fucking amazing.

[love the bible]

During the month of Tevet the bible was taken from hands of the Jewish People and translated from the Hebrew into Greek in what is known as the Septuagint or translation of the seventy.

This began the process of foreign intervention into Jewish theology.

Now the Israeli's have got the thing so small ain't nobody gonna be able to figure it out.

[DrStoooopid]

I would get one of those implanted in my body lol.

[bbk]

But when will they be able to count the angels on a pinhead?

[Nick P.]

Simply amazing! I hope to see applications transition to the medical field!

[MJ]

"Where did you people learn how to spell?" "Sigh!"

[OldStuff]

What a meningsfull use a FIB machine ! Anyone with a FIB can do this ! Lack of REAL news ?

[Lilac]

Let's just hope they stop making nano projectiles to launch into innocent Arabs eh?

[Jim Sprone]

Lilac you imbecile what has launching projectiles into Arab terrorists.Got to do with this.
Why don't you just go back to sleep.

[STS]

It would be funny if the person in the picture sneezes.