The Scotsman have reported on the development of miniaturised, ’speckled computing’ techniques being developed by team based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and Strathclyde universities¹. Dr Damal Arvind, director of the team, will deliver a talk about these new computational systems at Edinburgh International Science Festival on Friday 13th April.

Arvind said: “This is the new class of computing: devices which can sense and process the data they receive. They also have a radio so they can network and there’s a battery in there as well, so they are entirely self-powered.

“You can do lots of interesting things with this technology. We are seeing this kind of technology in the Nintendo Wii and this is a very, very primitive form of what we will be demonstrating on Friday.” [The Scotsman]

On a related note, I am reminded of the 5 micron RFID chips produced by Hitachi² which are many times smaller than the 0.4mm x 0.4mm mu-chips that can already be found embedded in tickets etc.

¹[From The Scotsman via Medgadget and Engadget]

²[Fuji Sankei (in Japanese) Via Pink Tentacle]

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