The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth.

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Global's slightly larger version, about the size of a fist, called the iSwipe Mini, secures entranceways and can store 10, 000 iris identities, each compressed into a tiny 2-kilobyte file, and can scan 15 people per minute.

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Wave Gliders collect enormous amounts of data and crunch the numbers distilling 4 gigabytes of raw data to a kilobyte of relevant information a client wants, for instance and then activate their Iridium satellite link to beam the result to servers on land.

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