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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Think thin

Newspapers and magazines have been getting smaller for years, but now radio has jumped on the downsizing bandwagon, with scientists at the University of California creating the world's smallest device, today's Telegraph reports. The "nanoradio" is 10,000 times thinner than a human hair and is tuned by the use of a single positively charged electrode. And the first broadcast received on the device? Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys.

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