IBM has made the world smaller film

"A boy and his atom" is the smallest film history. It was made by IBM.

It is a pretty window that is offered with the IBM fim. "A boy and his atom" has just entered the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest film world. The short of thirty minutes shows a boy playing ball. The boy was made ​​from twenty molecules of carbon monoxide.

Using a scanning tunneling microscope, IBM was able to film this story, because the camera can zoom up to 100 million times the objects. With regard to the realization of the images, the atoms were displaced by engineers using a very fine needle. They composed and photographed the different movements and used the process of stop-motion to give their lives, as an animated film. 242 images were used to make the film.

Check the atoms to store data

If the design of the film seems a little simplistic, think that atoms were moved 5000 times to obtain this result. Work for several months.

Christopher Lutz, an IBM employee said "the ability to control the temperature, pressure and vibration to very specific levels that the IBM research laboratory one of the few places in the world where the atoms can be moved with such precision. "IBM's goal is to show that the company is able to manipulate atoms on magnetic media, a technique that can be used in the context of computer data storage.