Super refrigerators!
Damn those people down at NIST are cool (no pun intended). They've come up with an amazingly simple way to cool larger than nano-scale objects to less than 1 degree above 0. Why is this amazing? because the fridge's themselves are nano-scale devices. Quoting from the article at PhysOrg
This is roughly equivalent to having a refrigerator the size of a person cool an object the size of the Statue of Liberty
Apparently there's lots of applications too for sensors that are very small, but need to be cooled down alot. It would be cool if they could embed these things in CPU chips and then we'd see some serious over-clocking!
Or better yet, somehow merge them into beer bottles and you'd have one frosty cold one!

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mmmm...frosty mugs!
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