Re: Smart Dust

sillyhead (cdale@home.isolnet.com)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:50:14 -0500 (CDT)


And stuff like this makes me want to leave too. Then again, how could you
escape the dust anyhow?
Breathe deep,
C

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:

> Micro mirrors and morse code. Very bizzare and fascinating
> computer technology. What's next? Breathing them in to diagnose
> lung cancer?
>
> Greg
>
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/321983.asp
> BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 11 They say walls have
> ears, but with a new breed of dust-sized
> computers, even the air could be listening and
> watching too. So-called smart dust, now under
> development at the University of California at
> Berkeley, will pack sensors, communicators and
> computing power into silicon motes light
> enough to float on air. They could be put to a
> variety of uses, ranging from monitoring
> battlefield conditions to observing weather
> patterns or even spying.
> --
> Greg Bolcer
> email: gbolcer@endtech.com
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