a senior associate at the Foresight Institute and author of "More Than Human: Embracing the promise of biological enhancement." But would neural dust have practical use for the growing industry of ...

“Smart dust”, invented by Hitachi ... there is no indication it has GPS capabilities or that it would work after being implanted in the human body. A picture shared on Facebook claims to show a tiny ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have created the very first dust-sized wireless sensors ... just about everywhere within the human body making them much more useful than ...

The neural dust is interrogated by another component placed beneath the scale but powered from outside the body. This generates the ultrasound that powers the neural dust and sensors that listen ...

The researchers believe future applications include less invasive endoscopic medical imaging of the body—even injection into the brain ... This is a concept known as "smart dust," and it's been kicked ...

Each package would be little more than a speck 100 micrometers (one-tenth of a millimeter) across, which is why the team decided to call it neural dust. The smart particles would all contain a ...

The project, called Smart Dust, was funded by DARPA the same year. The idea was to make low-cost, battery-operated wireless sensor networks to drop over a battlefield or other areas of interest ...

Researchers around the world are working to make all that dust in the wind a bit smarter. So-called "smart dust," minuscule ... smaller than the width of a human hair. Christopher Rutherglen ...