From a bedroom filled with electronic experiments to lecturing at Harvard University… Adam has been a “gadgeteer” since he was 5 years old, creating gadgets and electronic devices from parts other people threw away.
At age 15 he visited Princeton University where he saw a demonstration of a scanning tunnelling electron microscope. Afterwards, he went home and built one out of LEGO parts.
The design was the inspiration behind his award-winning Electrochemical Paintbrush - a device that “paints” tiny lines of copper so small it can print 50 words end-to-end in a space the width of a human hair. At that stage it was 16 times smaller than the current device used to make microchips!
Source: www.legalzoom.com
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Date: 04/08/2008
Name: xolani
Rating: 4
Comment: these ppl received a gift from god..damn they're super clever
Date: 26/07/2008
Name: Jetaine Preston
Rating: 4
Comment: I'm blown away!!!