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03-31-2006, 10:35 PM
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March 28, 2006—Pampering pets with designer goods isn't so unusual—and now even your houseflies can get outfitted in style.
An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of "designer" lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly's 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.
Manufacturing firm Micreon GmbH submitted the insect's picture for the Bilder der Forschung (Photos of Science) 2005 competition. Selected images were on display last week in a Munich shopping center. Micreon, based in Hannover, Germany (see map (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=europe&Rootmap=german&Mode=d&SubMode=w)), created the fly's eyewear using ultrafast laser micro-machining. The firm notes on its Web site that the process can create objects with high precision at scales of less than a thousandth of a millimeter. —Victoria Gilman
now maybe he could stop bouncing off the walls.:D
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/images/060328_fly_glasses_big.jpg
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"The Power of Light" in National Geographic Magazine (http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/10/01/html/ft_20011001.1.html)
Photo Gallery: Best Science Photographs of 2005 Named (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1004_051004_science_photos.html)
Tiny Flying Robots Modeled on Insects (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0313_030313_secretweapons2.html)
March 28, 2006—Pampering pets with designer goods isn't so unusual—and now even your houseflies can get outfitted in style.
An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of "designer" lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly's 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.
Manufacturing firm Micreon GmbH submitted the insect's picture for the Bilder der Forschung (Photos of Science) 2005 competition. Selected images were on display last week in a Munich shopping center. Micreon, based in Hannover, Germany (see map (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=europe&Rootmap=german&Mode=d&SubMode=w)), created the fly's eyewear using ultrafast laser micro-machining. The firm notes on its Web site that the process can create objects with high precision at scales of less than a thousandth of a millimeter. —Victoria Gilman
now maybe he could stop bouncing off the walls.:D