In the near future, nanocapacitors spewed from a spray can on to a wall, tree, clothing and even underwater may replace ugly cell towers.
During the Solve for X event, Google’s answer to TED, a Utah based start-up ChamTech Operations Enterprises, Inc. unveiled their spray-on wireless antenna technology. Wacth it.
It holds the promise of no longer asking “can you hear me now?” or dancing around to pick up a signal. Physorg noted that studies revealed the ability “to send a VHF signal up to 14 miles away using only the treated tree. Rhett Spencer, chief technology officer of Chamtech, said the company’s spray-on technology could make cell phones work with 10 percent better efficiency.”
Graffitti is about to get a lot more interesting as the “Spray On Antenna Kit” is now available (pricing by request) but ChamTech is mainly targeting the government, mobile phone and medical device manufacturers.
The government, specifically the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has been interested in sprayable antennas since 2001 as an inexpensive solution, according to Signal Online.