At Berkeley, the “Smart Dust” team has come up with a rubber-band powered robotic flea. The idea is to use a whole bunch of these things to create a sensor network. On your dog, I guess. Call me lacking in vision, but I don’t want to see the MEMS rubberband in this story. I want to see the 7 millimeter robot jumping. I imagine it’d be bad to swallow one of these by accident too. Then you’d need to swallow a robotic spider, and so on.
Via Boingboing.
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I'm Michael Condouris, and this is my second blog. The first one's Wacky Neighbor. I was born in 1975 in New Jersey. I live in Aberdeen, NJ, with my fiancée Carrie, in our new suburban paradise. We have two pets, a Shih Tzu named Coco and a beagledor named Zoë. I was on Jeopardy once. I lost, though, just like in the Weird Al song.
Besides Smallistry, my interests include robots, space, movies, movies about robots and/or space, and Mexican restaurants. Recently I've also become fond of the Wii and ancient history. I dislike conversations about food, sports, other people's children, and conspiracy theories. I'm ok with talking about the weather though. My hat size is 7 1/4, and I have no sense of smell.
I've pretty much stopped blogging in the last, oh, 6 months or so, because talking about tiny things got a bit stale and life had a habit of getting in the way. So for the time being, the site will live on as a Twitter feed of whatever floats through my head.
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