VESELIN JEVROSIMOVIC: The smallest computer in the world is smaller than a grain of rice!

Foto: Milena Đorđević, Flickr/Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan

There is more and more talk about the Internet of Things concept. It is an idea in which common objects in our enviroment will actually be computers, that will be connected to the Internet, which will enable many new possibilities.

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Veselin Jevrosimovic, the owner of Comtrade wrote alot about IoT in his column for the daily newspaper "Informer".

"I already wrote about the so-called "Internet of Things", which is a concept that common everyday objects in our surroundings have some sort of "intelligence", like a computer, an internet connection, and appropriate software solutions. One of the most important prerequisites is the creation of a fully functional computer, as small as possible, so as not to jeopardize the basic use-value of "smart" items.

At the University of Michigan (USA), a team of professors and students have been working for years on such a micro computer. At at time when computers were the size of a cabinet, and occupied nearly an entire room, micro-computers are called the PCs that we use today. The model I speak of is actually "micro" because it takes up only one cubic millimeter and is smaller than a grain of rice. It is powered by light, which is used to send instructions (programming), and the response of the computer called M^3 comes in the form of a radio signal. Despite it's miniature size, this "little computer" is able to take pictures, measure pressure and temperature, and perform other similar tasks.

Foto: Flickr/Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan

Hence, it's intended use is in the field of medicine, industry and science. Specifically, the M ^ 3 could be injected into the body and in that way receive numerous readings and parameters of health. Even so, there are already intentions to use these small computers in the oil industry for the detection of appropriate sites, and in everyday life we could finally have a situation where it is impossible to lose anything. Namely, if we were to install a small computer in our keys, wallets, and other important things, we will always know where they are. I believe that this possibility will bring joy to many."

(Telegraf.co.uk/ Informer)