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SmartDust Sensorwebs 'Real Soon Now'
DeAshcroft writes "EE Times has a piece on progress with the four-year-old DARPA-conceived Smart Dust self-organizing sensor networks. Based on Berkeley's TinyOS and TinyDB open-source projects, the article reports several companies are demonstrating both military and civilian applications. Ars Technica adds background and commentary on issues not discussed in the EET article."
I'm still waiting for my magic server pixie dust...could this fill the role?
A beowulf clu.... nevermind, my bad....
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
Smart Dust? I must have the world's most powerful Beowulf cluster under my bed.
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If smart dust and dust bunnies under the furniture get together, there'd be no end to the mess they produce, and produce, and produce...
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Twice.
Shape the motes like spiders... and give them simple commands like "kill Tom Selleck"
Fire in the hands of the village idiot is no tool, but a weapon of mass destruction
You think that is bad? Imagine this in case of war.
To get rid of smart dust, "the enemy", of course, will deploy dumb vacuum cleaners.
Which after that, having such a huge concentration of smart dust on board, will gain conciousness.
-- I walk through mindfields...
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Would my Roomba become smarter after cleaning up the dust? Talk about reuse...
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Anti Dust
Is this it?
SmartDust Sensorwebs 'Real Soon Now'
Sooner than Duke Nukem?
I guess they're frantically looking for the prototype now ?
Someone is wrong on the Internet!
Is this like IBM Pixie Dust? Mmmm... soy based...
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The enemy just needs to battle harden one of these and clear the battlefield.
"We're sorry, but the website you're trying to reach has been disconnected."
I'm voting for Nadir.
:)
Your misspelling is highly appropriate
...it would at the very least decimate the enemy by incapacitating asthmatic troops.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare
The articles never mention the power source for these things. They mention the size will eventually be mere millimeters across, but what kind of battery can you put in something that small?
And if you are restricted to a small battery (or maybe small solarcell) how much power do you have available to broadcast to the other sensors so they can talk to each other.
The technoglogy won't mean much if these things actually become 'DumbDust' after a few minutes (seconds?) of operation.
-Dubya
Didn't he win last time?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
We could now DDOS people with allergies. Jerry Seinfeld will have one more reason to be afraid of dirt. "It's WATCHING ME!!!". What happens if you ingested smart dust? Would they keep getting readings back through the whole process?