Originally published at: Flying microchip with wings to monitor air pollution and airborne diseases | Boing Boing
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I’m already exhausted from how this news will supercharge conspiracies.
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“Waiter, there’s a flying microchip in my salad!” -Michael Flynn probably.
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I’d be curious to find out more about the details around storage or transmission details; that’s an incredibly tiny footprint for any sort of data processing/etc.
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Why would we ever want to add this trash to our environment? Probably designed do drop a whole bunch of military sensors into hostile territory…
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Well, I wouldn’t call it flying exactly.
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this flying microchip could someday monitor air pollution, track the spread of airborne diseases, and, of course, conduct surveillance
Weirdly, only one of those benefits from being ultra-small. I’m sure they’ll be used for those other thing, too, though… (/s)
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“Similar in size to a grain of sand […]”
Small enough to be inhaled, right… We’ll never stop wearing masks.
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But is it small enough to fit through the needle of a syringe?
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Oh boy, now we’re headed for the nano-nightmare previewed in The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. The Diamond Age - Wikipedia
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