High-speed wireless signals through meat

New Scientist (April 14) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have fired a wireless signal through slabs of pork and beef at speeds fast enough to transmit high-definition video. The technique, which the team has nicknamed “meat-comms,” could help doctors interact better with medical devices implanted in our bodies. These limitations have stopped us developing medical implants that can send and receive useful amounts of wireless data, says Andrew Singer. So his team turned to ultrasound instead. Also: Popular Science (April 14), Gizmodo (April 15), Daily Mail (UK, April 15), Engadget (April 15), Sky News (April 15), RT (April 15), VICE (New York, April 16), Sky News (Austrailia, April 17), Newswire (April 17), ScienceBlog (April 18), Phys.Org (April 18), UPI (April 18), Science Daily (April 18), IHS Electronics 360 (April 16), The Engineer (April 19), Med Device Online (April 19) News-Medical.net (April 19), Med Device Online (April 19), CNET (San Francisco, Calif., April 21), IEEE Spectrum (April 20), Chicago Inno (April 27).