High-speed, wireless signals through meat

5/10/2016

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The Week (May 10) -- If you ran into electrical engineer Andrew Singer in the grocery store recently, you may not have given his shopping basket – filled with a few beef livers and some pork chops – much notice. But Singer was buying that meat for his lab, not for his plate. Back at Illinois, he hung the pork chop and beef liver on hooks, pointed ultrasound devices in their direction, and proved that data can be wirelessly transmitted through flesh as quickly as Netflix streams movies. Also: Illinois Magazine (Summer 2016).


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This story was published May 10, 2016.