smart dust
Britishnoun
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This week, a woman in a “We, the People” T-shirt invoked David and Goliath, and a self-described citizen journalist said voters were being controlled via nasal swabs coated with “nano smart dust” in Covid-19 tests.
From New York Times
Dust in the wind: The Wall Street Journal delves into “smart dust,” or machines that never stop working.
From Los Angeles Times
The bulkiness of the air-temperature-powered system—it’s about the size of an Amazon Echo speaker, though the company hopes to shrink it to the size of a Coke can—illustrates one of the many challenges on the path to creating smart dust.
Another promising source of energy for smart dust is heat.
They’ve coined a term to describe the potential ubiquity of such sensors: “smart dust.”
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