Radio in the palm of your hand? Try on the head of a pin

Sure, that pack of cards-sized transistor radio you once thought was so small pales by comparison to your iPod Shuffle, which isn't much bigger than a square from a Hershey's chocolate bar.

But your diminutive Shuffle has got nothing over on the portable tune machine University of Illinois Professor John Rogers and colleagues have fabricated.

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