Tiny Tech

Episode 007 Feeling sick? Although many illnesses are caused by microorganisms, other diseases such as cystic fibrosis and hemophilia are genetic disorders, caused by abnormalities in the DNA of our own chromosomes.

Episode 006 In 1965, the chemist Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years, due to improvements in technology to make the individual circuit components smaller and smaller.

Episode 005 What would happen if you were to take a gold coin and cut it into two pieces, and then into four, and kept going until you had very tiny pieces consisting of perhaps a thousand gold atoms each?

Episode 004 In the 1966 movie “Fantastic Voyage”, Hollywood star Raquel Welch was part of a surgical team that was placed aboard a submarine, miniaturized to microscopic size, and injected into the bloodstream of a man.

Episode 003 Transistors are everywhere: in computers, in cell phones, and even in those gimmicky greeting cards that play tunes when they’re opened.

Episode 002 We live in a world of change, and the technology that surrounds us is changing especially fast. One important contributor is something called nanotechnology.

Episode 001 Let’s talk small, really small. The field of nanotechnology is making big advances toward achieving precise control of matter on the nanometer scale. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or about the size of four adjacent atoms.