Have you heard of a violin the size of one-tenth of a human hair wide? Students at the University of Twente demonstrated a brand musical instrument that plucks strings, based on a new micrometer-scale system. Six microscopic resonators fit on a microchip, one resonator permusical tone, and series of the chips can be combined into a MIDI interface to play an entire song. However, since it’s so small, you’d expect the sound to be extremely puny too. The micronium needs to be amplified 10,000 times before they’re audible through standard speakers.

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