"Smart Dust" Aims to Monitor Everything
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MAY 13, 2010
John D. Sutter, CNN

In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains of rice. These "smart dust" particles would monitor everything, acting like electronic nerve endings for the planet.
Now, a version of Pister's smart dust fantasy is starting to become reality.
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