June 15, 2005
Tiny Flying Web Servers

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Flying, clustering computers via Smart Mobs:

A tiny helicopter that serves up a Web page over a wireless network has been made by UK scientists using off-the-shelf hardware.

The 70-gram prototype, is the first in a group of flying computers that are planned to one day combine swarm intelligence, the ability to maneuver like a flock of birds, and wireless computing, to process information the way cluster-based supercomputers do.
Posted by dcoates at June 15, 2005 11:54 AM