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<![CDATA[Field Scouting with Google Glass? Group Will Study the Potential]]>
Imagine if you could simply look at a pest in the field to take a photograph of it? What if in the same glance you could draw on the knowledge of agronomists and entomologists around the globe to identify the pest and learn how to fight it?Those scenarios may not be as far out as they sound.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a grant to a company called TekWear, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia to evaluate the effectiveness of wireless, web-connected technologies (headsets that look like eyeglasses) to monitor and grow specialty crops such as pecans.
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2014-10-08
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