Year: 2022

EVERYTHING WITHOUT LIMIT. "Putting sensors on stuff? Boring. What if the sensors were in the air, everywhere? They could monitor everything—temperature, humidity, chemical signatures, movement, brainwaves—everything." Orwellian. https://lnkd.in/eSBshT3 View in LinkedIn

SMART DUST. "And motes in a smart house could report back on lighting, temperature, carbon monoxide levels and occupancy. With motes embedded in all of your belongings it might be possible to run a Google search in the physical world. For example, asking Google "where are my keys?" would give you the right answer if they have been fitted with a mote." https://lnkd.in/eJg-jHE View in LinkedIn

TRANSFORMATION OF THE NORM. "We live in a world where factories, cities and transportation are going through a dramatic transformation, from isolated systems to an integrated network of smart devices and systems that can ‘talk’ to each other and create a smart world. Thanks to the Internet of Things more data is created than ever before and by 2020 sensor data will make up 40% of all data created." https://lnkd.in/ekgVRmX View in LinkedIn

UTLITY FOG. "Arthur C. Clarke is famous for suggesting that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. There's no better example of this than the ultra-speculative prospect of "utility fogs" — swarms of networked microscopic robots that could assume the shape and texture of virtually anything." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

REPLICATING ANY STRUCTURE. "Utility fog (coined by Dr. John Storrs Hall in 1993) is a hypothetical collection of tiny robots that can replicate a physical structure. As such, it is a form of self-reconfiguring modular robotics." https://lnkd.in/eM3mJB6 View in LinkedIn

"EACH FOGLET would have to serve as a kind of pixel. They'd measure about 10 microns in diameter (about the size of a human cell), be powered by electricity, and have twelve arms that extrude outwards in the formation of a dodecahedron. The arms themselves would be 50 microns long and retractable." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

POWER HOUSES. "Each foglet would have a tiny computer inside to control its actions. "When two foglets link up they'll form a circuit between each them so that there will be a physical electrical network ... that way they can distribute power and communications." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

UTILITY FIG. "It would essentially approximate multi-branched snowflakes that are barely touching each other — and interacting with it would feel like standing or moving through packed snow." This programmable "snow" ... could move around a person — and even move them around." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMMABLE SNOW. "They'll be able to make objects appear and disappear on command, and even make them hover and fly around. And through such forces as squeezing, hitting, and pulling, they'll also be able to manipulate objects in the environment." https://lnkd.in/eik9_rZ View in LinkedIn

ANATOMY. "Each Foglet has twelve arms, arranged as the faces of a dodecahedron. The central body of the foglet is roughly spherical, 10 microns in diameter. The arms are 5 microns in diameter and 50 microns long. A convex hull of the foglet approximates a 100-micron sphere. Each Foglet will weigh about 20 micrograms and contain about 5 quadrillion atoms. Its mechanical motions will have a precision of about a micron." https://lnkd.in/ebphx-d View in LinkedIn