Nanobama!
Scientist John Hart created a remix of Shepard Fairey's Obama poster from 150 million carbon nanotubes, each of which measured tens of thousands of times smaller than a human hair. That sure is a lot of tiny Obamas. Snip:
Even then, the finished product is only half a millimetre in diameter and almost indistinguishable from any other garden variety micro dot - unless you happen to be looking at it through a microscope.Obama under the microscope, and here is Hart's site at the University of Michigan Mechanosynthesis Group (Thanks, @mpesce)The magnification reveals tiny, three dimensional "carvings" of the now ubiquitous polarised image of the president-elect originally created by street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey.
The "Nanobamas" were created by a team of researchers led by Hart, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.
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I guess they mean "solarised" rather than "polarised".
yeah, I'm kinda thinkin the image looks like..uhhh... bullshit.
maybe I'm wrong...
People get paid for this?
Where do I sign up?
"Only half a millimetre"? That's over 500 micrometers, making any claim that these are "nanostructures" or "nanobamas" rather absurd. These are actually visible with the naked eye. Legitimate structures on a nanometer scale have dimensions smaller than the thinnest line used in these structures. From looking at Hart's other works, I have no choice but to assume that he's using "nano-" words like nanostructure and nanotube in order to misleadingly publicize completely different work, as many companies did years ago. This, unfortunately, gives a bad and undeserved reputation to researchers who are actually doing nanoscale work.
For those who are commenting on the image, though, it's from an electron microscope, so it's going to look like that unless some processing is done to add false colors and whatnot. I can assure you that if I were to take the time to make a real "nanobama", the picture of it (from an AFM) would look far worse.
aw, picky picky, you guys.
Well I think its pretty cool, even if "nano" was misused!
Not exactly very 3d either the face is just a flat image extended.
this is getting silly. 3 stigmata of obama eldritch silly.
It's Obama Grey Goo ! The insidious Obama plot is revealed! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo )
Sigh...it's obviously more an exercise in publicity than Obama-worship. The guy's real work is likely research into processes for creating things from carbon nanotubes, which is the part of carbon nanotubes that hasn't really been solved yet. Consider: Googling "John Hart" and "nanotubes" brings up 1760 hits. Add "Obama" to the mix and you discover that 730 (over 40%) of these hits are related to this one stunt. How many of you would have clicked on an article titled: "Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes: Toward New Systems for Science and Manufacturing"?
By the way smart guy, the finished product is compared to a "MICRO dot," [emphasis added] the 150 million carbon nanotubes of which the product is composed ARE nanoscale structures. No wonder education is held in such low esteem.
Hmm... I thought this was on BB a week or two ago, but I guess not. Gizmodo had it on 11/4.
They look like candies. NOM NOM NOM
Obama is a puppet for Zbigniew Brzezinski and Trilateral Commission. Barrack Obama was never born in the United States and his real name is probably Barry Soetoro.
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Obama was never born in the United States
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!
You forgot to mention Obama is a shape shifting reptilian. He was bred in vat in the alien base 50 miles below the surface of the earth. And that even though he is a Marxist and a socialist his first act as president will be to impose sharia law and force your daughters to wear the hijab. Then he will establish a dictatorship of his fifth column community workers who are even now preparing the wing-nut reeducation camps.
Thanks Evil Illuminati for introducing some humor into this thread about the most stupid use of technology since Lenin was momified.
"Thanks Evil Illuminati for introducing some humor into this thread about the most stupid use of technology since Lenin was momified."
Lenin gave birth...? Ewww!!! What was Yoko thinking?!?!
Ha-ha LOL
How is the ear attached?!?
And... this would typically be the last advertisement by scientist John Hart when the bean counters notice that time, materials, and funding may have been mispent. That's why Dilbert avoids marketing.
Was on wired.com two weeks ago....
"wing-nut reeducation camps"
Don't be silly.
Wingnuts are too valuable as a source of organs, which the Soetoro Administration will sell to the Gray Aliens in exchange for funds to turn baptist churches into madrassas and gun confiscation offices.
@#21 for the win.
I just can't compete with you people
#21 for the milk snort.
This is indeed a nanostructure, because it is made up of carbon nanotubes that are definitely on the nanoscale. See
http://www.nanobama.com/how/how.htm