Intelligent Dust – one step closer

Swarm Bots: Now W/Solar Power, Complex Behaviors! | Boing Boing Gadgets.

So, you can’t make a computer smart like a human.  But you can make one smart like an insect.  Now, and insect is kinda dumb, but a bunch of them can so some really smart things – build hives, gather food, map their environment, ward agaist preditors, maintain temperatures, maintain and expand colonies – and that’s just bees.

Now, imagine these babies with a small crappy camera.  Hundreds of small crappy cameras…  All we need now is a EMP flyswat.