Small plates of aahaan kap klaem — Thai pub snacks — arrive one after the next, covering tiny tables, along with potent beverages to wash them down.
It was like a Russian folk tale in which a traveler arrives at a hut in a dark forest and is introduced to one generation after the next, each tinier and more wrinkled than the last.
Personally, I think the car could be the next frontier of tiny living -- imagine how superior people would feel when telling those tiny house losers that they live in the backseat of a Prius.
There were a few days where it seemed like all I could do was go from one breath to the next, gaining a tiny sense of control.
Raise the heat and add the greens a handful at a time, adding the next with a tiny pinch of salt when the previous one has wilted a little.
In exchange for this political fealty, we would get practical help and material assistance - but the practical help that can be given to us in our attempts to stop the next bombs seems tiny.
Until recently, however, it didn't perch, and perching is the next frontier for tiny flying machines because robots, like birds, bats and insects, can keep going longer if they conserve energy by resting.
Inside those arenas the key to building the next generation of tiny chips is a technique known as immersion lithography.
This week in Science, two teams of condensed matter physicists independently report observations of the next best thing: tiny ripples in solid materials that act like the elusive particles.
