The floating sensors inspired by seeds
Nature Podcast
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The Future of Environmental Sensing
The fliers they've made carry tiny antennae so that they can communicate wirelessly. The fact that the devices fall relatively slowly through the air would make them great for monitoring the atmosphere. Other suggested applications include monitoring a chemical spill in an environment, or tracking the presence of a dis another option is to use color metric chemical reagents imbedded in the flier structures themselves.
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