<!--intro-->If Kristofer Pister has his way, we will never think about dust in quite the same way again. Pister is leading a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley that is developing tiny, electronic devices called "smart dust," designed to capture mountains of information about their surroundings while literally floating on air. The San Francisco Chronicle has the <a HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/20/MN62513.DTL&type=science">full story</a>.<!--/intro-->
