Spray-On Computers

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 23, 2003 @08:42PM from the topical-ointment dept.

Jack William Bell writes "Edinburgh University has funding for a program to create spray on computers. The basic idea is to make thousands of tiny 'silicon specks' or 'smart sand' (a step larger than smart dust) which work together via wireless networking to provide 'ubiquitous computing.' No, the idea itself isn't new. But it is interesting to see someone actually working on it. The initial application is a spray you apply to the chest of heart patients, creating a sensor array to report their health back to the hospital."

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Incorrect language. by CGP314 · 2003-08-23 22:02 · Score: 0, Troll

SPRAY-ON computers the size of a grain of sand... They plan to spray the nano computers...

I wish people would stop using the word 'nano' to mean very small. It's 10^-9m. A hell of a lot smaller than a grain of sand.