Instead of forcing users to write with a stylus on a computer's slippery display, Livescribe put the computer inside a plump ballpoint pen that is used on paper imprinted with nearly invisible miniature dots.
Pink is covered in "reminders": a bar code on the nape of her neck ("I wanted to see how much I was worth"), her father's dog tags on her ankle, red miniature hearts dot her feet.
Now a study finds that miniature magnetic dots--each just billionths of a meter wide--may help superconductors resist even the strongest synthetic magnetic fields.
His collared shirt had miniature polka dots and carefully tucked under his left breast bone were the initials, "RSM".
The miniature version, called Dot, is an iPhone attachment that allows users to capture 360 degree videos using their smartphone.
Metaphors such as "miniature batteries" were dotted around yards of column inches, while well-trained experts patiently unpicked the perplexing paradox of a baby "with three parents".
If a doll bellies up to a bar and orders a beer, she'll have to wait while the bartender puts three drops of resin into a miniature stein, adds a dot of yellow dye and three drops of hardener, and then stirs the mixture sixty times with a toothpick.
There is a wagon wheel and a cowboy boot nailed to the wall and, right behind Vander Plaats, a plastic wreath dotted with miniature Conestoga wagons.
A walk on the fells from Tórshavn took me across bog dotted with miniature lakes and stone cairns used as landmarks during fog.
Through strokes of vibrant acrylic, Seonna Hong creates abstract floating dreamscapes dotted with miniature yet purposeful figures.
A miniature carbon nanotube (CNT) paste emitter dot with a diameter of ∼50 μm was fabricated onto the cross-sectional surface of Kovar (nickel-cobalt ferrous alloy) rod without using a sophisticated photolithography.
