TCP/IP Meets Physical Reality

An anonymous reader writes "When Google is clouding the borderline between web and the desktop, a much, much smaller project is blurring the border between the Internet and the physical reality: the newly released Contiki operating system version 2.2.1. Contiki runs on networked wireless sensors that are used for anything from road tunnel monitoring for fire rescue operations to collecting vital statistics from ice hockey players. These sensors typically have as little as a few kilobytes of memory and a few milliwatts of power budget — a thousandth of the resources of a typical PC computer — yet Contiki provides them with full TCP/IP connectivity. Meanwhile, San Francisco is monitoring parking spaces with wireless technology."

Comments

Imagine a beowulf cluster of these babies

[davidwr]

Ok forget the beowulf part.

Imagine a networked swarm of these babies.

Re:What Does This Have to Do with Google?

[MichaelSmith]

Seriously, not everything has to do with Google

I know but tell that to my Sister in law. I got this call from her this morning because google had disappeared from her laptop. It turned out that she had at some point installed Safari, possibly because she runs iTunes. Then something happened and the home page of safari got set to apple or something and she lost her only ability to find things on the internet. I said okay lets start firefox and she said firefox? is that the same as google?

I think its time..

[plasmacutter]

I think it's time to frame the lincoln tunnel for copyright infringement.