'sall about the lasers ...y'all

...or a global hyper-colour, although to be totally honest with you, i'm much less bothered about the squirrels - that's just the way it is...

sorry 'bout that...

but it was not always so... actually, it probably was... with the dinosaurs, the call-waiting, and all that funky techno sh*t...

but the lasers? dang fo' sho' that's real...

and despite constantly being told "its not always with the lasers man" and asked "what is it with you and the lasers dude?", this time it actually is... and what's more, that's science_FAKT!

if this isn't the coolest thing in the world, then i don't have my own personal gerbil army...

ladies and boy beings, i present to you...

the nano guitar

...and it ain't made by korg! this lil' beauty is only 10 microns long (about the size of a human red blood cell) and can only be played by shooting the strings with lasers... and if that ain't rock and roll, i don't know what is...

of course, no human ear can actually hear it... we typically have an audible range from 20Hz to 20kHz, generally lower owing to hearing degradation (too much bass? yeah apparently it is possible, so plug-up ya get me...?!?)... the scale length of this lil' thang dictates that the fundamental frequency of an open string (aka the root note) is gonna be waaaay up there, something in the order of 40MHz (megahertz)... like, wow! that's pretty damned high right about there...

put it mathematically, the lowest note on a bass guitar in standard tuning is about 41Hz...
megahertz are 10⁶ Hz... make no sense? well 41Hz is 41Hz all day and all of the night, but 41MHz is 41,000,000Hz... big numbers right there...

maybe it would of been better if it output notes in the order of nanohertz 10^-9Hz which would be pretty bowel-shakingly low, that's the kind of noise the earth makes, and brown noise ain't got a thing on that...

or my personal favourite yottahertz 10²⁴Hz but let's be honest, if dogs can hear higher frequencies than humans... i don't wanna meet the beast that can hear all the way up there...

but i think my favourite thing about the whole nano guitar is the fact that they actually took the time to model pick-ups on it... two of them, they look like soapbars or 'buckers to me...

that's pretty far-out... cos even if they could nano-tech them into working at that size, it'd still end up sat on the end of the jack lead...

still want one though 8)

(if you wanna check out the article which i done read... (and steal the picture from) http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/13/whats-that-sound-nano-guitar ... properly harvard referenced right there)