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Devices could recycle radio waves instead of transmitting them with new ‘interscatter’ technique

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UW grad student Vikram Iyer holds a contact lens antenna that could use interscatter to communicate. If we’re ever to have things like smart contact lenses and permanent brain implants, one of the things we need to figure out is the power problem. Those devices need energy for collecting, processing and especially transmitting data — but that last one might not be a problem anymore, thanks to a new technique called interscatter communication. Read More