Sensors may revolutionize everyday life
Devices working their way from industry into innovations in homes.
The device doesn’t look like much – a gray plastic casing that holds a temperature sensor, a low-power radio and a couple of AA batteries. Only the Microsoft Research logo suggests there’s anything revolutionary about it.
But its creator says that pioneers have already used similar gizmos to transform the world. Over the next few years, he predicts, dozens of these bland boxes will change the way you live.
“These boxes will do more for you than your car,” said Feng Zhao, a Microsoft Corp. researcher who has devoted much of his life to a technology that most people haven’t even heard of – yet.
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