[ecomcon]

How in heck do we learn about this stuff? All about how it works, what the sensors look like, the fact that it is not operational now, but will be in about a year, etc. I hope it's misinformation.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Check out:

Dust Networks

Ember

Crossbow

[John from Manhattan]

That work is part of the DARPA NEST program. For more details, you can read directly from the web-page of the Vanderbilt ISIS research group here.

There is a lot of interest in this type of technology now. Check out this micro-size gamma ray detectors being developed at Kansas State by some colleagues of mine.

An article.

Some images: one and two.