World’s smallest working drill

DRILLS are always large and heavy tools exclusively used by big, muscular men, but New Zealand-based engineer Lance Abernethy has created the world’s smallest working drill which measures just 17mm in height, is 7.5mm wide and 13mm long.

The tiny drill is completely capable of drilling through soft objects like marshmallows and sponge… and Jelly Babies.

Abernethy told: “I was with my work colleagues and was talking about mythical stories about one country making a twist drill and sending it to another. The other country returned it with a hole through the middle. Things like this easily challenge me and my idea was born. It took me three hours to solder and try and squeeze all the parts in,” he added. “The wires kept breaking off when I was trying to connect them and it was a nightmare trying to hold the in place.”

Wonder what’s next in this miniature-obsessed engineer’s mind?

Blue lava for real!

THE picture is not a computer trick or a work of Photoshop – this lava is genuinely blue!

An engineer managed to capture this phenomenon spewing from the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. This lava is actually produced by sulphur burning off the lava. How? Well, the electric blue glow occurs in unique and rare conditions when volcanic environments release both lava and sulphur simultaneously.

If this was to be viewed in daylight, the lava would have the orange glow we all know, however, the dark surroundings made the perfect settings for amateur photographer Martin Rietze, to capture the mesmerising sight.