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February 13th, 2012, 15:16 GMT · By

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Soon You'll Be Able to Spray Paint Antennas for Wireless Signal

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Mobile antennas are something that everything from notebooks to mobile phones have, but it might be possible for everyone to make their own soon enough.

This is a good thing too, since there are times when you just need that extra kick to the wireless signal.

Government-based customers are already looking into the idea, so not much info was made public, but the bottom line is that Chamtech Enterprises has developed a spray that, essentially, can create antennas on more or less anything.

Rhett Spencer, Chamtech's CTO, estimates an energy efficiency improvement of about 10%.

Finally, the compound works quite well under water. Coupled with its organic nature, this makes it highly suited for rainy weather and sub-aquatic telecommunications and the like.

Now we just have to wait and see if this thing will ever become a mass-produced resource.

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Comment #1 by: Central Pete on 21 Feb 2012, 15:05 UTC reply to this comment

Can one assume the "receive" charactoristics are equal to the transmit signals?

Comment #1.1 by: Sebastian on 21 Feb 2012, 15:57 GMT

I'm honestly not sure. It's not like everything was made crystal clear. If transmit signals are slower, I'm willing to assume, or at least hope, that the difference will be eliminated eventually. Either that, or this thing will be strictly used for receiving radio/tv/whatever instead of setting up Wi-Fi.

I doubt they'd release this spray if it had this drawback though.

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