{"id":749165,"date":"2013-05-01T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=227715"},"modified":"2013-05-01T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:24:47","slug":"ibm-creates-the-worlds-smallest-movie-entirely-out-of-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/749165","title":{"rendered":"IBM Creates The World\u2019s Smallest Movie Entirely Out Of Atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atoms make up everything in the universe. So technically, a movie made out of atoms isn&#8217;t all that new. In fact, every movie since the dawn of film has been made of atoms, just like everything else. What&#8217;s unique about IBM&#8217;s latest project then is that researchers have made a stop-motion film by moving single atoms. <\/p>\n<p>In what IBM calls the &#8220;world&#8217;s smallest movie,&#8221; <em>A Boy and His Atom<\/em> is a short film that was created by IBM researchers &#8220;using a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other).&#8221; They mostly did it just because they could, and the results are pretty amazing: <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSCX78-8-q0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It may not look like much, but the above movie is the result of IMB meticulously moving individual atoms to create a scene. It&#8217;s actually kind of mind blowing when you realize we can now move individual atoms &#8211; the basic building blocks of everything, living and non-living, in the universe. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, making movies out of atoms isn&#8217;t IBM&#8217;s primary objective here. The company is researching atomic memory &#8211; a type of memory storage that packs data into incredibly tight spaces to increase the amount of storage possible in tiny spaces. Early last year, IBM was able to store a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/ibm-bit-twelve-atoms-2012-01\">bit of data on just 12 atoms.<\/a> As the technology advances, we&#8217;ll soon be able to store more and more data on smaller and smaller devices.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, IBM can be content that it holds the Guinness World Record for the world&#8217;s smallest movie. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning how IBM manipulated the atoms to make the movie, check out the video below: <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xA4QWwaweWA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[h\/t: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/1dh3pw\/ibm_makes_animation_by_manipulating_individual\/\">Reddit<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=6zlX7kyrd4U:vIFr4vmioDA:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/6zlX7kyrd4U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atoms make up everything in the universe. So technically, a movie made out of atoms isn&#8217;t all that new. In fact, every movie since the dawn of film has been made of atoms, just like everything else. What&#8217;s unique about IBM&#8217;s latest project then is that researchers have made a stop-motion film by moving single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38Tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}