Smart dust: A complete computer that’s smaller than a grain of sand

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Now, a team from the University of Michigan has built not just a very small microchip, but a whole functioning computer, and it’s less than a cubic millimeter in size. Called the Michigan Micro Mote, or M3, this tiny computer features processing, data storage, and wireless communication. Researcher Pabral Dutta thinks it will be the “next revolution in computing.”

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Crazy, a computer the size of dust or a grain of sand. I wonder would this mean we someday use computers which are too small to see, and are connected to a keyboard and monitor with a sand size wires and cables, or wirelessly.

I'm worried about privacy since someone can just blow dust on people, or in people houses and they can attach many dust sized computers with tiny microphones, or webcams to spy on people when mics and cameras are also the size of dust.
 
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