The really, really tricky part, says G?nter Kamlage, was getting the spectacles to stay on the face of the fly. Not because the insect moved, which it didn’t, being quite dead. But because the eyewear measures just two millimetres from temple to temple, and a fly doesn’t really have a nose. Or ears to hook the ends over, for that matter….
So begins a December 10, 2006 report in the Toronto Star about Micreon‘s fly, Maxwell’s daemon, the Ig Nobel Prizes, and other possibly related subjects.