There are exciting implications of the latest ultra-low-power communication breakthrough, beyond your couch talking to your keys. Everyone is online these days. Pretty soon, “everyone” could include ...

Researchers have created a new method of wireless networking that allows devices to communicate with each other without batteries or their own source of power. Dubbed "ambient backscatter," this ...

With almost 8 billion souls to feed and a changing climate to deal with, there’s never been a better time to field a meaningful “Internet of Agriculture.” But the expansive fields that make industrial ...

This flexible epidermal patch prototype successfully transmitted information across a 3,300-square-foot atrium. Such a patch could be used to collect and wirelessly transmit medical data. (University ...

In order for the Internet of Things to become a reality, devices will need to be able to communicate with the internet and with one another. If they have to be powered up in order to so, however, a ...

We've all seen, if not in person, that at least in a movie or another, how x-ray body scanners work. What kept most of us comfortable up until now was the fact that, in order to get scanned, you had ...

What if Google Glass didn’t have a battery? That’s not too far fetched. This battery-free HD video streaming camera could be built into a pair of eyeglass frames to stream HD video to a nearby phone ...

The recent deployment of backscatter scanning devices meant for airline passengers has caused controversies focused on both the privacy issues of the scans and the safety of the devices themselves ...

Researchers have found a low-cost way for backscatter radios to support high-throughput communication and 5G-speed Gb/sec data transfer using only a single transistor when previously it required ...

The Transportation Security Administration has removed all controversial X-ray body scanners from U.S. airports, citing privacy concerns. The last of the 250 backscatter machines were taken out of ...