Engineers have been miniaturizing things for decades. This trend led to the mobile phone. The latest miniaturized thing is a handbag. It is so tiny it can only be seen through a microscope. The art group MSCHF created the Louis Vuitton-inspired bag. The group said its creation is "smaller than a grain of sea salt and narrow enough to pass through the eye of a needle". It is 657 micrometres wide. It just sold for $63,000.

The neon-green bag was made using high-tech 3D printers that make biotech components. MSCHF used the technology to see how small they could make a bag. The chief creative officer did not ask Louis Vuitton for permission to use its logo on the handbag. He said he would rather ask for forgiveness than for permission. He thought the bag was funny because handbags are usually highly functional, but it is now an item of jewellery.