World's smallest comic etched into a hair strand

Researchers have carved out the world's smallest comic into a strand of human hair using a focused ion beam.
Artist Claudia Puhlfurst's "Juanita Knits the Planet" has become the world's smallest comic strip, detailing a day in the life of Juanita, a ten micron-tall girl-turned-robot.
The comic strip was etched into the hair using a technique called focused ion beaming (FIB).
This involves using a sharp and high-speed jet of matter, sputtering atoms onto the surface to carve out a pattern in the process, 'Gizmag' reported.
"Juanita Knits the Planet" found its way onto the hair not for its compelling narrative arc, but to showcase the potential of such technologies.

According to Wired.Co.Uk, Puhlfurst's comic was etched into a single hair by Andrew Zonenberg, a PhD student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.
The technique differs from that used by IBM last month to produce the world's smallest magazine cover that was crafted using a technique called nanopatterning and measures 11 x 14 micrometres, the report said.
The comic strip has been created to promote the Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting (EHSM) to be held in Germany next month.