This growing global love for the Nano Banana is by no means nano.


A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
So a nanobanana must be a billionth of a banana.


This was the first thought in my mind when I heard the term. My metrology schema had suddenly gotten activated, and it was making certain connections on its own.
In the dazzling neon lights under which my neurons danced, a question popped.

Why on earth are we talking about these impossibly and microscopically small bananas?

And so I did what any modern computer-toting non-techy does. I asked ChatGPT to tell me what it was.
This is what it told me.

Nano Banana is a genetically engineered miniature banana variety developed for higher nutrition and easier cultivation.

– ChatGPT

Made complete sense.
Until I did the other thing that a modern mobile-loving non-techy does. I arrived on LinkedIn.
I realized that people weren’t going bananas about “a genetically engineered miniature banana variety” but about this new offering from Google that lets you re-engineer your pictures.

So I experimented with Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image <– No wonder they decided to call it Nano Banana.) and fed it a few pictures and images, which i dutifully logged here.

Yesterday, I wanted to take it forward. I wanted to make a few videos too, and my favorite video-creator (with a mind of its own) is Grok Imagine.

Making funny videos using AI is particularly easy.
In this particular case, I asked Gemini to make a picture of bananas, then used s Nano Banana avatar to put these nano characters (a princess and a pauper) into them. Then I gave the image to Grok Imagine, who then made their nano-love flourish.

So here’s some nano love blossoming in a couple of nano bananas.

Image Credit: Gemini/Nano Banana
Video Credit: Grok Imagine
Quote Credit: ChatGPT 5
Textual Content Credit: Shafali

Schema:
A schema is a structured framework or plan that organizes information.

In instructional design parlance, a schema is a dynamic mass of information stored in a lattice-like structure (our brain.) (Schema Theory.) Brain smartly organizes and reorganizes information in the schemas that our brain houses – so that information that we access regularly, stays in the foreground. The information that we don’t access often is pushed into the background and over time, it becomes dormant. A trigger, however, may activate this piece of information and draw it out of its slumber. (Example here.)