(Nanowerk News) Imagine a cloud of sensors, each the size of a grain of sand, blown aloft by hurricane winds and relaying data on the storm to weather stations below. Or picture tiny robotic chips ...

When we hear the word “dust”, the first thing that comes to our mind is a powdery substance with zero value. Smart dust is a tiny device with extensive applications in science and technology.

Good things come in small packages – and sometimes in aerosol cans. To prove this, researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, ...

June 10, 2006: For the last ten years, development of "smart dust" has moved right along. "Smart Dust" is basically very miniaturized electronic devices. This is similar to stuff like RFID, smart ...

Smart dust. Utility fog. Programmable matter. Grey and blue goo. Cooperating swarms of micron-sized devices (motes) offer completely new solutions and capabilities that can hardly be imagined. However ...

A journalist contacted me yesterday to ask my opinions on a possible future security threat – smart dust. According to the “Life and How We’ll Live It” Futurizon report, commissioned by Fujitsu, ...

In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time, brainpower and investment to conquer ...

Imagine fully functional sensor circuits so small and inexpensive that you could afford to scatter thousands into an area of interest to sense local conditions or to detect the presence and movement ...