World’s smallest fidget spinner made at Oak Ridge lab

Knox News ^ | 12/27/2017 | Brittany Crocker

[deoetdoctrinae]

ORNL scientists have created the world’s smallest fidget spinner, which measures just 100 microns wide, almost 130 times smaller than Texas A& M University’s earlier take on the record,...

[deoetdoctrinae]

Teeny tiny space travelers take them along on interstellar voyages, to while away the time.

[mabarker1]

What the heck is a fidget spinner ?

Part of a tiny blender ?

[mabarker1]

It would figure that NUTSCAR is in on making a buck off it.

I think We now a few here that could benifit from one.

[sean327]

Don’t the scientists at Oak Ridge have better things to waste taxpayer money on?

[buckalfa]

Somewhere the scientists who created Y-12 must be saddened if Oak Ridge has come to this. Then again as a curmudgeon, am I missing some valuable technological advance in this story?.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Tiny ADD sufferers rejoice!

[WayneS]

Truly a worthwhile expenditure of our tax dollars...

[Gay State Conservative]

Will this help me pull in the Providence stations?

[PIF]

The article say something like the scientists there created the toy so that the ext generation would know they were useful ... that’s good because the next generation can hardly count so making toys should suit them just fine - perhaps they can ‘engineer’ (with Chinese ‘help”) the worlds smallest safe space ...

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“In fact, don’t expect to see one at all, unless you happen to have an electron microscope.”

You don’t need an electron microscope to see something that is 100 u in size. Any student microscope would be more than sufficient.

[deoetdoctrinae]

...am I missing some valuable technological advance in this story?

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Well, maybe. Time will tell. A spokesman did say

...the world’s smallest fidget spinner may have future applications as the world’s smallest manufactured motor. “You can use them for all kinds of devices,” he said. “There are lots of applications where you want small, mechanical devices and a motor can be used to drive one of those.”

[Terry L Smith]

dear mabarker,

re: “ What the heck is a fidget spinner ?

Part of a tiny blender ?”

It’s the new thingie, instead of clicking your pen all the darn day long while you noodle out a problem.

I bought one for a friend’s daughter ... kinda fun.
Here is a trick shooter with one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9ITALBzHlg

[Ronald_Magnus]

Here’s a picture of it

[mabarker1]

Ok doyk

The things we humans are entertained with...

She’s cute!

Thank You

Check this out PING

[Chode]

i think it's for people with autism or add or something

[snooter55]

Nascar will try to make $ off just about ANYTHING - well, except maybe Confederate Battle Flags.
Never thought I’d see the day where they’d take a swipe at the hand that feeds them. Oh well . . . like nfl-like nascar !

[mabarker1]

That’s for sure. I’M gonna Do a Speedweeks/Daytona 500 Thread and see how much response it gets. 2 Years ago Threads kinda fizzled because of the crap NUTZCAR has done.

Me spending 12/17/16 - 03/03/17 in Hospital and Rehab Physical Therapy didn’t help either for 2017.

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