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08-14-2014, 02:17 AM
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Wearables of the future may use reflected WiFi signals to communicate (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNEQ7hbEoxTq4FsmlF3kRTssu7WYRA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778584013546&ei=txvsU_CKDOjRmAKox4G4Cw&url=http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/ambient-backscatter-wearables/)
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That problem wasn't lost on a team of researchers from UCLA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- they've spent the last two years cooking up a way for a device to communicate with a WiFi router by reflecting the very signals it sends out back at it ...
Ultra low power Wi-Fi using backscatter technology (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=ca&usg=AFQjCNHLl_tnmUsJZPl-QAtOkCcRass5fw&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778584013546&ei=txvsU_CKDOjRmAKox4G4Cw&url=http://www.ferret.com.au/articles/news/ultra-low-power-wi-fi-using-backscatter-technology-n2516725)Ferret

all 2 news articles &raquo; (http://news.google.ca/news/more?ncl=d3MLpU5lpo0YPPMq5XcIBq4d4caCM&authuser=0&ned=ca)



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