Spider veins are tiny, thin veins that can be seen very close to the skinâs surface. They look like red, blue, or green spider webs just beneath the skin. Sometimes they are also described as looking like marble. Spider veins are caused by a backup of blood. These become nonfunctional, âdead-endâ veins.
While the fairy fly is the worldâs smallest insect, there a few runners up! For example, the feather wing beetle is only .25 millimeters long. Some scientists think these beetles may even be smaller than fairy flies, but for now, the fairy fly is considered by many to be the âsmallest insect!â.
Billed as the world's smallest desktop computer, CuBox lives up to that billing with a very tiny 50mm all round displacement . We'll take a look at it running the GeeXboX Linux distribution along with XBMC and RUTorrent, which turns this little black box into a nifty torrent client and media center thriving on just three watts of power.