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Smart Dust
Smart Dust is a collection of tiny electronic sensors that can collect and report a variety of types of data. In many cases these sensors are designed to self-organize into wireless mesh networks in order to report their data collection. As the sensors become smaller and cheaper, more applications for them will become obvious. SmartDust [...]
1646 – Liebniz – bio
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1646 and became known primarily for his contributions to philosophy and mathematics but was also accomplished in many other fields. He created the modern binary number system that is used by computers and at the same time as Newton, invented calculus. PRECURSOR: -0385 – Aristotle 1571 [...]
Rovio
Rovio is a remote controlled car with a camera mounted on it, but instead of using a radio signal for the control channel, it uses Wifi and can be controlled over any internet connection. You can also control the camera and monitor its output over the internet. How many practical applications and modifications are possible [...]
Songdo
Songdo (formerly known as New Songdo) is an evolutionary city being built in South Korea. It has been designed from the ground up with built in ubiquititous technology and computer networking. The financial backers supporting this new techno-utopia seem to hope it can become an economic hub to rival Hong Kong as well as set [...]
Oort Cloud
In 1950, Dutch astronomer Jan Oort (building on an idea originated by Ernst Opik) proposed that a hypothetical and massive cloud of comets that orbit far from the center of our solar system might explain why comets don’t seem to originate from deep space and often have an outer orbital edge about 20-50,000 AUs from [...]
Kuiper Belt
Discovered in 1992, the Kuiper Belt is a large expanse of space just outside the edge of our solar system that contains a large number of small objects. This belt is similar to the asteroid belt, but is much larger, much farther away and may contain more frozen water and volatile gases than the metallic [...]
