real-life Tetris under a microscope

[mindnomad]

This is incredible

[animaticToshiue]

THIS IS SOOOOO COOL!!!!! :) :)

[squigy97]

Oooooooooh, so THAT'S how babies are formed... XD

[printz150]

Holy cow this is amazing

[AlexGRFan97]

Holy shit they're so small they're naturally unstable.

[BasslineFishehhh]

are you messing with sperm?

[gobigggen]

That's awesome

[jmameren]

@UALGProduction Hehe, Tetris microscopes are not out yet -- it was a self-built microscope we used.

[Serperoth]

This is pure AWESOMENESS.

[smcjw]

How did you trap those glass beads to begin with when they were all floating around in the solvant?

[diegoribadacunha]

yeah lets mutate some cells with UV and play X-men! XD

[LouSaydus]

Really? With our microscopic glass beads moved by computer guided precision laser technology, we..... PLAY TETRIS FUCK YEAH!!!

[l33tprofessor]

LOLWTF, THAT IS AWESOME.

[rodika56]

LOL At the end, it looked like sperm. xD

[DoWoJo]

doesn't mean anything.

[evanesp23]

seriously, i hope u guys arent getting tax payer money. how about doing something useful for a change? scientists...they think studying the stars a billion miles away will help humanity...

flying car or GTFO

[AlonTavor]

@evanesp23

umad?

[boobunny100]

@evanesp23 they were just demonstrating the effectiveness of the tool... try looking up "laser tweezers" or "optical trap"... it is very cool, quite simple, conceptually..... and has been very useful and will continue to be very useful

[ey8bb]

Are you using more than one laser here, or are the spheres manipulated through "time-sharing" of a single laser? In any case, very impressive!

[jmameren]

We did it through timesharing of a single laser.

[boxa888]

@jmameren isnt time sharing just a fancy name for scanning?? lol

[Piscivorus]

That's great. ...where's my flying car?

[Darind99]

wow! that´s COOL!

[PoochyEXE]

Careful, you might wanna get that licensed by The Tetris Company (and add infinite rotation so they'll sell you the license), or Henk "Joseph Stalin of Tetris" Rogers will probably sue! ;)

But in any case, this is awesome.

[aahauu]

Ha ha ha, who says scientists don't get bored?

[gwaur]

This must be the only real-life Tetris implementation that really works.

[NonyOlei]

:)

buen video

[AnimatorLinden]

23666th viewer! :O

[jmameren]

It sure is real -- and it sure is under a microscope.

You can check out what the equipment looks like by following the link in the description!

[JustynSucks]

Whoever was playing isn't very good at tetris. xD

I'm just kidding.

Cool video.

Could use some background music though.

[PedoSack]

WOAHH!!!

[threelegduck]

wow. how much do they weigh and how much energy must the laser produce? (can you do this with a protosoa to make a micro-scaled pac-man?)

[jmameren]

These glass beads are pretty light-weight: 1 pg (picogram or 10^(-12) gram...

However, you could in principle do the same trick with bacteria, to get somewhat closer to live pac-man! :-)

[jaxmyers]

Wow this rocks. You should have had the Tetris music playing during this video.

[strandintrans]

It's damn nifty, but you must not get very good resolution when you trap share like that with AOD harmonics?

[strandintrans]

Is this a set of parallel optical tweezers where you split the beam into multiple traps w/ the AOD, or is it a holographic tweezers set up?

[jmameren]

We multiplexed using AODs.

If you like, you can read more if you Google 'real-life μ-tetris'.

[Vyggy]

what happens after you run out of cells to play with?

[jmameren]

At the end we switch off the laser that holds the particles in place. Then they continue to wiggle/diffuse around like they did before we captured them in the laser traps.

[popup999]

INCREDIBLE... indeed CELLS.. how did you do that.. what is happening here could you tell in short??

[jmameren]

You can read more if you Google 'real-life μ-tetris'. Enjoy!

Btw: these are not cells, but simply glass beads of 1 micrometer size.

[HTMLFTW7]

That is really incredible...

[marnixblomberg]

COOL!!!:O!!

[t4kne]

must have been a demo of tweezing capability of a system?

[jmameren]

Of course. We don't get paid for playing games... :-)

[HuckleberrySlim]

it might not exactly look like it, but you guys are advancing human mastery of nature

[minxado]

the cells are probably like "what the FUCK is happenting"

[hmm2112]

they aren't alive...

[dawisepir8]

This is really hott.... I am currently doing research on Optical Tweezers too... it sucks that ur college doesnt own one tho =(

[coondogtheman1234]

thats awesome I love tetris i had it on NES and game boy and played it on Ps2 once at a friend's house and i have a SWF file of tetris that i can play too

[imanerd36]

What were you using?

[jmameren]

42 glass microspheres (1 μm or 0.001 mm diameter), a microscope and some other stuff (see the link in the description), yet no alcohol. :-)

[imanerd36]

Thank you!

[Flintymeat]

It is cool because it is very very very small.

[liltwang]

i really dont get why thats cool

[glokc19]

come on man, its tetris!!!

[Buggascope]

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!

[Nintencrazy]

holy crap! thats awesome

[GoogolBass]

great idea ! could you show the installation or something ?

[jmameren]

Thanks!

You can read more if you Google 'real-life μ-tetris'. Enjoy!