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Whether it's self-navigating robotic cars, hacking Charlie, or cracking the game of blackjack to win millions from Vegas casinos, the kids at MIT tend not to leave any stone unturned, and last week continued the trend. A team of MIT engineers announced the development of a tiny batteries partially assembled by viruses. The batteries, checking in at a scant 4 micrometers wide (compared to the 17-181 micrometer width of human hair), have similar performance characteristics to standard lithium-ion batteries. The MIT team hopes eventually to produce wholly virus-assembled batteries that can be implanted into living tissue for use in medical devices. No doubt the next step will be to use these virus-batteries in a device to make the female population of campus resemble fictional MIT student Kate Bosworth. The study will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with considerably fewer references to 2008 movies based on card-counting.