Via KurzweilAI.net — Not certain how I feel about this. Seems like a lot of potential for abuse.
Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There New York Times, Jan. 30, 2010 While smart dust* is not here yet, smaller, faster and cheaper technology has reached the point where sensors may soon as powerful as tiny computers.
One example: Intel is developing RFID technology that adds an accelerometer and programmable chip in a millimeter-sized package, powered by ambient radio power from television, FM radio and WiFi networks.
* Tiny digital sensors, strewn around the globe, gathering information and communicating with powerful computer networks to monitor, measure and understand the physical world
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