A Thermometer In A Nanotube

Stone Rhino writes: "Yet another marvel has been created in the quest to create minature machines: a thermometer of liquid gallium within a carbon nanotube. The New York Times has an article on this. The thermometer is 10 microns long and measures temperatures from 120-950 degrees farenheit. Of course, the part I find most impractical about it is the fact that you need a scanning electron microscope to read it."

Sure the thermometer is small

[Anonymous Coward]

But do you want that scanning microscope stuck up in your ass as well?

Well, okay, but do you want it in there the whole time they take your temperature?

In a related note, British scientists...

[Single GNU Theory]

...asked about carbon nanotube thermometers revealed about their own research: "These go to eleven (microns)."