Scientists at Disney Research have developed a way that devices can use ambient radio waves in order to send data. The researchers say their new technology could be used for everything from sending data over the air or even using it as an alternative form of communication between devices.
Scientists at Disney Research have developed a way that devices can use ambient radio waves in order to send data. An ultra-low power system of sensors able to transmit data by reflecting ambient radio waves from commercial broadcasting systems has been created by Alanson Sample, the associate lab director of Disney Research's wireless systems group, who said the goal is to "reuse all the radio signals that are around us as a medium for transmitting data".