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Comment by regularfry

17 hours 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  15 hours ago

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

slow_typist  14 hours ago

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

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