In 1943, IBM's ibm Thomas Watson predicted «a world market for maybe five computers» — most likely because he was thinking about computers in terms of what they were (the size of a room) rather than what they would become (the size of a fingernail). (fortune.com)
Experiments using laser light and pieces of gray material the size of fingernail clippings may offer clues to a fundamental scientific riddle: What is the relationship between the everyday world of classical physics and the hidden quantum realm that obeys entirely different rules? (sciencedaily.com)
Known as extreme ultraviolet lithography, it's 10 times finer than current techniques, channeling more than 20 billion switches into a chip about the size of a fingernail. (discovermagazine.com)