It's accepted as a rule that technology is constantly shrinking. Talk to any recent visitor to Japan, and they're likely to bend your ear with stories about The Tiniest Watch In The World, or a television that hides inside your glasses or even - if you're really lucky - a portable toilet you can fit in your back pocket.
It seems everything's shrinking... except my waistline.
Confirmation of this fact (the first one, not the second) comes from TechNewsWorld, which has a story about a new teeny-weeny method of nanotech data storage.
Chemists at Glasgow University have engineered a tiny molecule which can store huge amounts of data in very small spaces, meaning the physical size of digital memory cards and hard drives could shrink dramatically in the next few years.
The metal oxide-based "nano cluster" has taken pounds-100,000 and three years to develop.
The molecule cluster is 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, and marks another step forward in nanotechnology, the science of atoms and molecules that is set to transform medicines, technology and even food in years to come.
Science really is quite remarkable sometimes.
