4/4/2006: Housefly with glasses

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Couldn't stop chuckling when this one came around. National Geographic reports that

An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of "designer" lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly's 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.
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Manufacturing firm Micreon GmbH created the fly's eyewear using ultrafast laser micro-machining.

Clearly they didn't understand the problem. These glasses have only two lenses... they should have 8000.