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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday’s NewsHour broadcast, Miles O’Brien reports on the safety of the latest backscatter body-scanning machines that are widely used in American airport security. Hari Sreenivasan caught up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Good news from our friends at TSA: they are getting rid of the hated (by me) Rapiscan "backscatter" screening machines like the one shown at right. These are the scanners in which you stand between ...

[Ben Krasnow] built his own version of the TSA’s body scanner. The device works by firing a beam of x-rays at at target. Some of the beam will go through the target, some will be absorbed by the ...

MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. - Members of the 820th Security Forces Group here are set to employ a new high-technology search system in the war on terrorism that will help increase base security that ...

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 ...