A recording of the song ‘Layla’ is on the audio player. It was taken from an FM tube radio.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/NOV07/nanoradio-layla.mp3]
Courtesy Zettl Research Group,
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley
Bad reception? An old LP played with a broken needle? No! Quite the opposite. It’s from the most advanced, state-of-the-art FM radio ever devised. It’s not a tube radio, but a nano-tube radio! Edwin Armstrong would be pleased.
This is creepy! Sort of like “Fantastic Voyage” without Rachael Welch!
Way smaller than a blood cell, which is something that can be seen with a regular optical microscope. The nano-tube receiver can be seen only with an electron microscope.
Wait. I get it; it’s about size. It’s almost like having a radio receiver/transmitter the size of a blood cell. Listening to “Layla” above is creepy. It’s almost like listening to somebody’s memory of it in their brain!