As climate change intensifies it’s useful to keep track of changes in temperature and other environmental signals across a wide area – and sensors that scatter on the wind like dandelion seeds could help.
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“Rather than having a person go out and individually place sensors, which can be dangerous in hard-to-reach places where we’d like to do these measurements, we wondered whether it’s possible to build a system that can disperse sensors in the wind,” saysIyer and his colleagues used a laser-powered tool to manufacture devices from polyimide films.
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