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The organisms are microscopic, thinner than a strand of human hair, but in large numbers they make seawater cloudy.
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At that size, about 15 of the maps could be wrapped end to end long-ways around a strand of human hair, by our math.
FORBES: IBM Draws A World Map 1000 Times Smaller Than A Grain Of Sand
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While the iPad and its kin are making waves today, we can't wait to see the next generation of devices that implement Sony's new energy-efficient OLED displays, which are thinner than a strand of human hair.
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Wizards at Lucent and Nortel can zap--in one second--6 trillion bits of information down a fiber strand the width of a human hair.
FORBES: Digital Rules
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Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.
FORBES: The Trials Of Amory Houghton Jr.
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That's 1.6 trillion bits per second, or enough capacity to let 28 million people all surf the Web at current modem speeds--on a single glass strand no thicker than a human hair.
FORBES: Hooked on photonics
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Kate's hair alone took six weeks, each individual strand of real, ethically-sourced human hair inserted by hand.
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