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So you have heard the pitch: a speck of silicon no bigger than a sand grain, powered by ambient radio waves, that can sense temperature, motion, and e...
You are standing in a soybean field at 6 AM. The mesh says every mote is healthy — except node 47. Its status LED blinks red. Not the slow blue you ex...
The primary window I watched a smart dust mote go silent, I thought we had killed it. Dead. Bricked. But the spec sheet said passive backscatter—it on...
You press your ear to the drywall. A low thrum. Could be the furnace kicking on. Could be a MEMS microphone smaller than a dust mite, etched into the ...
Picture a mote of dust that can steal your Wi-Fi password without touching your router. That's not a Black Mirror episode; it's a 2025 research demo f...