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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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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.
