(Nanowerk News) European and Indian researchers are applying principles learned from living organisms to design self-organizing networks of wireless sensors suitable for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes.

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=6901.php

Coming to a town near you - wait, this is my town! Thirty years ago, I spent three years trying to sell energy conservation and renewables to a populace of ranchers and farmers.

"The next-generation electricity grid will allow our company to better meet growing demands, address environmental challenges, maximize available resources and optimize the entire energy system. Ultimately, a “smarter” grid helps us serve our customers by creating more options for managing personal energy use, habits and costs."

Jacking in aims for the mass market. The headset is based on raw EEG readings, so is at a very limited level of granularity, but still.

"The exact source of the electrical activity the headset is picking up may not be important, said Dr. Jonathan Wolpaw, chief of the laboratory for nervous system disorders at the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health in Albany. He uses EEG caps as part of brain-computer interfaces for severely paralyzed people. His systems record brain activity alone, but for a consumer game device, a cap that picks up a mixture of brain and muscle activity may be acceptable."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/technology/08novel.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

This site is freaky in its panicky desperation to protect itself from a world it doesn't understand, right now!

http://www.borderfenceproject.com/

"AlphaSniffer LLC has developed a highly-sensitive biosensor for detection of trace amounts (~pg/mm2) of bacteria, viruses, proteins, nucleic acids, antibodies and other biological and chemical agents in real-time and with minimal human intervention."

http://www.alphasniffer.com/index.php