Even on a camping getaway, I don’t really want to get away from my wired life, well completely. Basking in the evergreen-glory is wonderful, but so is having full bars on my iPhone. And now thanks to Utah-based startup Chamtech you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. In fact, using their newly-introduced ‘spray-on antenna’ you can turn the woods themselves into cell phone signal boosters. The company unveiled their spray-on antenna which can turn any surface into a cell phone signal booster at Google’s ‘Solve for X’ conference. The team demonstrated the power of their technology by sending a VHF signal up to 14 miles away only using a tree treated with the signal-boosting spray.
The spray works by covering a surface with nanocapacitors which align themselves to create a sudo-wireless antenna. While incredible, the idea is not a new one. Government researchers have been studying and experimenting with spray on radio antennas since 2001 with the goal of quickening military communication. Even so, such a technology has never been readily available to the public. Chamtech CTO Rhett Spencer claims the spray can increase a cell phones efficiency by 10% which he further explains in the video below.
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GOOGLE has to recognize that there is a difference between
"Solving for X" and hyping a technology that just doesn't work as
stated.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King
Anthony Sutera forgot to mention the antenna stencil and
matching circuit without which there will be no conversion from electromagnetic
waves to electric current, i.e. Maxwells Equations. There is no such a thing as
"antenna in a can" unless Sutera et al. proved that Maxwell is wrong!