HOW TO ALIENATE YOUR WIFE BEFORE YOU’RE EVEN MARRIED

While the Japanese continue to create smaller and smaller versions of funky gadgets, there are some things that don’t lend themselves to the smaller is cooler mindset. For example, you aren’t going to impress anyone with the latest offering from Hitachi’s micro-machines division, which has created the world’s smallest diamond ring. The ring itself has a diameter of only 0.02 millimetres and houses a five-billionth of a carat diamond which can only be seen with a microscope. A digital microscope photo of the ring won the gold award at this year’s Asia-Pacific Conference on Electron Microscopy. (ABC News)