Researchers around the globe are working on new ways to generate huge amounts of power that will be needed for the shift to a data-driven society.
Combining wake-up receivers with the parasitic use of ambient radio waves could drastically slash IoT power consumption.
Startup NextMind is readying a $399 development kit for its brain-computer interface technology that enables users to interact, hands-free, with computers and VR/AR headsets.
MIT researchers are developing a wallpaper-like material that’s made up of simple RF switch elements and can be applied to building surfaces. Using beamforming, the antenna array could potentially improve wireless signal strength nearly tenfold
The Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) would use certain kinds of bacteria, which scientists think has the attributes needed to make effective sensor networks.
Open-hardware, software-defined mobile radio infrastructure could kick-start private LTE and 5G and perhaps eventually lead to their supremacy over Wi-Fi for enterprises.
Some researchers think brain-copying architectures should replace traditional computing. One group explains how that might work.
Quantum teleportation, where information is sent instantaneously, will secure the Internet, researchers say. Scientists are making progress.
An across-the-board shift to privatizing communications networks is underway.
Materials incompatibilities have stalled efforts to integrate transistors and memory in a single on-chip, commercial component. That might be about to change.
