Sharp develops "world's smallest" 1seg TV tuner
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:45AM
posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:45AM
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posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:45AM
The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Man, that coin is HUGE!
Its actually a dinner plate
1 yen coin is about the same size as a penny. Also, it is made of aluminum and for a while, it cost 1.5 yen to make 1 yen and the Japanese government was trying to figure a way to get the cost down to manufacture the coins.
See here: http://jyopp.com/_extImg/1y-size.jpg
It's not much bigger than a US penny. It's made of aluminum, though, so it's really light, maybe half the weight of a penny.
Does it blend?
I don't know if the dimensions are wrong or the picture but the tuner definitely looks rectangular and the dimensions state it as a perfect square.
6mm x 6mm seems roughly to be the size that a square that size would fit exactly into a US quarter with the corners touching the edges. Or maybe I'm off.
6mm x 6mm - boy your quarters really are "small change"!
In the image the coin is 319 pixels by 235 pixels, which is a ratio of 1.35744 to 1. This is caused by the camera being pointed at an angle that is not perpendicular to the surface the items are placed on. The electronic component is 96 pixels by 71 pixels, which is a ratio of 1.35211 to 1. That's a really small margin of error and is accounted for by 1 pixel of anti-aliasing.
So, if that coin can be trusted to be round, the component can be trusted to be square. See, don't you feel silly for arguing with Mrs. Harris back in the 9th grade about never needing to know how to do this stuff?
6mm is slightly less than a quarter of an inch. That is indeed a small quarter you have.
Americans + Metric = funny
A quarter is 24.26mm in diameter. The largest square that will fit inside it is 17.154mm. A dime is 17.91mm in diameter. The largest square that will fit inside it is 12.664mm.
You could fit 4 of these tuners inside a dime!
A nickel is 1.95mm thick. So, the easiest way for an American to quantify the size of this to say, "It is a square whose sides are about three nickel thicknesses long."
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/money/coins/quarter/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/money/coins/nickel/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/money/coins/dime/
Math is fun. Google is your friend.
Good....now if only jetBlue would get these and make them work with their LiveTV IFE system, that's be great. It sucks enough getting stuck in the middle seat without that huge converter box taking up your legroom!
A lot of things look small compared to a Japanese manhole cover.
I hope to see one of these in my next cell phone sometime very soon.
that coin oddly resembles the weights i use for bench press