New Tube Radio
November 5th, 2007
A recording of the song ‘Layla’ is on the audio player. It was taken from an FM tube radio.
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.
3 Comments Add your own
1. jeanie beanie | November 6th, 2007 at 8:12 am
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!
2. Dog Rat | November 6th, 2007 at 8:23 am
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.
3. jeanie beanie | November 7th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
This is creepy! Sort of like “Fantastic Voyage” without Rachael Welch!
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