What Is It?

Your purple broom you've had since the 70's?

it was free with the purchase of a tie dye shirt

That's too easy.

A close-up of the cheese found at the back of my refrigerator?

adjust your color settings mine is NOT green

Here is what I found on Google for SEM cheese mold.

Not quite as straight however. I prefer the blue moldy cheese.

looks tasty. .......and with a 12 pack we have a meal

Crumbled on top of a sizzling hot steak !!

I used to work at a company which built SEMs. One day I brought in a snippet from a used-but-supposedly-'clean' dishrag and scanned it. Unbelievable.

Some things in life we are just not supposed to know about.

The horrors you see under a microscope!

My brother has OCD, is an absolute 'clean freak' and a royal pain-in-the-arse. His house isn't a home, it's an exhibit. White carpet everywhere.

"See that carpet there? Nice, white and clean? Just the way you like it?"

"Yeah, not like the floors in your place, you slob."

"Right. Well, they only look clean from a distance. Zoom in at, say, mag 2000 and it's a festering mat of bacteria feeding on flecks of dead skin, microscopic bits of mucus from your last sneeze, fecal matter and urine tracked in from outside and from the bathroom after your last flush. Oh, you take your shoes off in the entryway, but then track-in on your socks what your shoes left behind on the floor. You can't see it, but it's all there, waiting for you. Now, what were you saying about 'slobs'?"

Just tell me you then put a piece of the same rag treated with a mild bleach solution and all was well. Please..

Fry up some wings while yet at it.

It's a border fence to keep those Mexicali Tardigrades out of the American moss patches....

An old photo of Timothy Leary's unmown lawn, perhaps?...

The nearly forever battery...

https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nanowire-batteries-uci-2016/#.WNlVrvnyuUk

Gold nanorods sticking up from a membrane substrate.

gold?

ANSWER Silicon Nanowires

Ah man, you caved too soon. Give it 24 hours at the least. Consider that some of CR4's readers are starting their day and are just now seeing your post for the first time.

they'll get over it

This fringe infringes on several of my nanu-tech patents.

--Mork from Ork

Its Silicon Nanowires!

Sorry just woke up. Do I get a price?

Yes, the price is just under $1,000,000.

...Oh, did you mean prize?

No I wanted a prince but thick fingers prevented me from getting what I want!

A prince? Lord no, I'd much rather have a talking frog.

And they eat bugs.

Yes, indeed they do. I'd feed it my copy of Microsoft Windoze, but I'm afraid he'd undergo gravitational collapse and turn into a black hole (which, on the bright side, can come in pretty handy in a game of marbles).

Yes, that would be if you want instant "game over".

It looks like the cut end of a nano-fibre rope/rod - but then I have not been paying attention!