Recently, Technology Review published an article about a new standpoint in Technology: specifically Nanotech. There’s a new device, totally autonomous - a flea - designed by Berkeley scientists that is capable of jumping even 30 times its size thanks to help of rubber bands, possibly the tiniest ever produced. The device itself had been created under 2001 Berkeley project”Smart Dust“, but recently experienced the addition of a rubber band that makes it real for the particle to jump almost freely.

In the picture: Size comparison of the Smart Dust particle …