WASHINGTON DC, April 24 — A new Guinness World Records title for the smallest magazine cover in existence has been set by National Geographic Kids and IBM.

The microscopic cover was unveiled at the USA Science & Engineering Festival and is so tiny that a grain of salt could hold 2,000 copies.

Measuring an unimaginable 11x14 micrometers and featuring an image of two panda twins, the cover was created using a tiny chisel developed by IBM. At 100,000 times smaller than a sharpened pencil point, the tool creates patterns on a nano-scale.

National Geographic gave IBM a jpeg image of the cover it wanted to produce, which scientists then transferred to a plastic surface. The chisel evaporates parts of the plastic, depending on the lightness and darkness of the image.

National Geographic’s latest cover sets the record as the smallest magazine cover and is fabricated at nano-sized scale, April 26, 2014. — AFP pic

IBM has now licensed the technology to Swiss start-up company SwissLitho and it will soon be made available on the market under the name NanoFrazor. — AFP-Relaxnews