A Canadian scientist has built what is probably the world’s most space-saving gingerbread house.
With a size that’s 10 times smaller than a human hair’s width, it’s also the world’s smallest.
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The house features a wreath, a brick chimney, and a Canadian flag doormat. The ultra-miniature house is the creation of Travis Casagrande, an Electron Microscopy researcher in Ontario. He carved it from silicon with a device that is essentially a microscopic sandblaster.
Speaking to cbc.ca, Casagrande, who works at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy, said, “Compared to the size of a typical gingerbread house that you might buy in a grocery store kit, mine is 20,000 times smaller.”
As if actually carving the gingerbread house wasn’t impressive enough, Casagrande even took stunning footage that featured the house sitting atop a snowman that was both shown to scale. Even more impressive was the fact that they both looked minuscule when put next to a human hair.
As the micro-camera pans out, the sheer scale of the hair becomes evident as it looks like a giant cylinder compared to Casagrande’s creations.
The Christmas geek even used a beam microscope that shot out charged gallium ions to fully flesh out the house with little details to make sure it was properly decked with Christmas decorations. Beam microscopes are normally used in the research of electronic and nuclear material. Casagrande’s creation is definitely a creative use of such a device.
But Casagrande wasn’t just doing this on a lark. His intention is to call attention to the cutting-edge research being done at the center.
“Our facility contributes to future technology, and that ultimately makes the world a better place,” he said.
The Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy shared the amazing footage via a tweet with the caption: “The folks at @ccemcanada are getting in the holiday spirit by creating a teeny-tiny gingerbread house.”
A microscopic gingerbread house was also carved in France last year but Casagrande’s is around half the size of that one.
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