Via UK's Daily Mail, IBM researchers in San Jose, CA created a 242 frame stop-motion animation, entitled "A Boy and His Atom". They individually placed carbon monoxide molecules into patterns onto a copper surface, via a very tiny needle (1 nm in width). Officially certified by Guinness World Records as the "Smallest Stop-Motion Film", each frame is just 45 nm by 25 nm, or about 0.00004% of the cross-section area of a human hair.
Just watch the video and think about how small 0.00004% of a human hair is.
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