smart dust

That doesn't mean that researchers should stop working on smart dust.

Smart dust may even have a more stealthy purpose.

Smart dust sensors must be relatively small and portable.

Another microaircraft could interrogate the smart dust to find out what it had seen.

The team named them motes and smart dust.

The idea is that small, remote-controlled planes will sprinkle clouds of smart dust behind enemy lines.

Dr. Pister hopes that one day his smart dust will be ubiquitous.

Estrin said it's important to ditch the idea that smart dust sensors would be disposable.

Potential applications might include "smart dust," sunlight-powered sensors to detect dangerous chemicals.

For example, "smart dust" – tiny wireless sensors too small to see – could eventually track the movements of anything, including people.

An example of this is smart dust, which can be either a camera or a listening device smaller than a grain of sand.

Tiny computer sensors are designed to be flung as "smart dust" over wide areas and to configure themselves with no human guidance.

Another generation of technologies that carry privacy risks – brain scans and smart dust, for example – is just around the corner.

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With the development of nanotechnology - the science of very small structures - they may become swarms of "smart dust."

The smart dust could also be used to detect biological weapons by putting antibodies in the pores that would hook onto viruses or germs.

The Smart Dust project attempted to demonstrate that a complete sensor/communication system could be made of sensors one cubic millimeter in size.

“The ability to eliminate batteries for these sensors brings the vision of smart dust closer to reality,” Mr. Smith says.

Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist, has suggested that clouds of "smart dust" be sent to the stars, which may become possible with advances in nanotechnology.

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Smart dust entered the 2013 Gartner Hype Cycle on emerging technologies as the most speculative entrant.

Among his projects is the development of smart dust, one-cubic-millimeter MEMS that carry sensors, communications systems and their own power supply.

Random little clots of dust are full-on robotic interactive devices, since advertising companies long ago released plagues of smart dust upon the world.

Clouds of "smart dust" - tiny computers and sensors each a cubic millimeter in size - will course through the skies monitoring the weather or the traffic below.

The University of California Berkeley is working on its smart dust project with the help of DARPA.