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Follow 0.35-inch-tall Dot as she runs through an obstacle course made of British currency, rides a bumblebee and stitches her way out of trouble. The music is catchy too.

Animators at the UK studio Aardman used a 3D printer to make 50 different versions of Dot, because she is too small to manipulate or bend like they would other stop-motion animation characters. The figurine’s tiny features stretched the limit of the printer — any smaller and it would be hard to make distinct limbs. Each one was hand-painted by artists looking through a microscope.

Directors Ed Patterson and Will Studd attached a CellScope (winner of a PopSci Best of What's New award in 2008) to a Nokia N8 12-megapixel camera to film Dot’s struggle in her microscopic world. They said Nokia commissioned them to make the film in celebration of CellScope’s potential to improve medicine in the developing world.

CellScope is the brainchild of Daniel Fletcher, a bioengineer at the University of California-Berkeley, who combined a cellphone camera with a 50x magnification microscope.

Watch Dot's adventure below.

Follow 0.35-inch-tall Dot as she runs through an obstacle course made of British currency, rides a bumblebee and stitches her way out of trouble. The music is catchy too.

Animators at the UK studio Aardman used a 3D printer to make 50 different versions of Dot, because she is too small to manipulate or bend like they would other stop-motion animation characters. The figurine’s tiny features stretched the limit of the printer — any smaller and it would be hard to make distinct limbs. Each one was hand-painted by artists looking through a microscope.

Directors Ed Patterson and Will Studd attached a CellScope (winner of a PopSci Best of What's New award in 2008) to a Nokia N8 12-megapixel camera to film Dot’s struggle in her microscopic world. They said Nokia commissioned them to make the film in celebration of CellScope’s potential to improve medicine in the developing world.

CellScope is the brainchild of Daniel Fletcher, a bioengineer at the University of California-Berkeley, who combined a cellphone camera with a 50x magnification microscope.

Watch Dot's adventure below.

Finnish company Nokia has started on-line game service N-Gage for mobile devices. Through service N-Gage users can communicate with friends, read reviews, load demonstration versions of games and buy the liked software products (mobile phones Nokia N73, N81/N81 8GB are supported, N95/N95 8GB and a number of other models, which list will extend).

Service N-Gage should open in November of the last year. Then start of a site has been transferred on the end of December and again postponed prior to the beginning of current year, informs Reuters.

Simultaneously with start N-Gage new social network Share on Ovi has been opened allowing users to exchange a various content by means of a mobile phone or an ordinary computer. Service is constructed on the basis of technologies of American company Twango which Nokia has got in the past to year. Universal platform Twango, enables users to organize, transfer and store multimedia files, and also allows developers to create accompanying appendices and to integrate them with other on-line services.

Let's remind, that game service N-Gage and social network Share on Ovi are a part of platform Ovi (in Finnish means "door"). Within the limits of project Ovi company Nokia plans to give to users access to various interactive a web-services. One of components of initiative Ovi - new musical shop Nokia Music Store.