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Comment by regularfry

1 month ago

It needs to be in the infrared spectrum at least to be useful for smart dust, otherwise the package size is still dominated by the size of the antenna. Even mm-wave radar is marginal here.

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volemo  1 month ago

So... smart dust powered by the sun? Cool!

slow_typist  1 month ago

Okay if you take dust literally. The important part is that the particles fly. Like dandelion seeds.

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