The homemade bombs that insurgents use in Iraq and Afghanistan are low-tech efforts, making them hard to find and stop, and cheap enough to spread world wide. But the Pentagon’s bomb squad doesn’t see that lasting. Its four-year plan envisions fighting improvised explosive devices that are much more sophisticated, using “flexible electronics,” “microbial fuel cells,” and “highly energetic and molecular materials.”
Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/jieddo-high-tech-bombs/