From Shandong province, a quiet but consequential compression of scientific infrastructure has emerged: a CT scanner small enough to hold in one hand, precise enough to trace the inner chambers of a fossil. Chinese company Rayim has distilled a technology long confined to hospitals and industrial facilities into a six-kilogram device, challenging assumptions about what serious scientific instrumentation must look like. In doing so, it shifts the boundary between the laboratory and the field, and between the expert and the student.