> Unless they plan to release a billion of these, sweep them up, and then have interns/grad students probe each one to extract the collected data. After readin

> Unless they plan to release a billion of these, sweep them up, and then have interns/grad students probe each one to extract the collected data. After reading the article and watching the video, I think that's what they are aiming for. The coil can couple data and power through near-field interaction, so they'll release a large number, hope to recover a sample of them, and extract the data through field or lab instruments. I could see this being useful for recording environmental data and forensic tracing, but they look closer to RFID tags than a computing platform.