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 ...

The image above showing examples of TSA full-body scans is authentic and was captured using the agency's backscatter unit, hundreds of which were installed in U.S. airports in 2010. The devices were ...

If you live in a city, you’re constantly swimming in a thick soup of radio-frequency energy. FM radio stations put out hundreds of kilowatts each into the air. Students at the University of Washington ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

A technician in the USA is developing a camera system that can save power from 1,000 to 10,000 times, which is a major weakness of a streaming movie system capable of sending captured images in real ...

Dublin, May 10, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Backscatter X-ray Devices Market with COVID-19 Impact Analysis, by Type (Handheld and Non-handheld), Application (Customs and Border Protection, Law ...

Bloomberg is reporting that the TSA will be removing all of the remaining backscatter X-ray machines from US airports. The removal isn’t because of health concerns—instead, the machines’ manufacturer, ...

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 ...