These new superthin antennas are made from metallic nanomaterials
Another story about a cool tech advance that gets the hairs standing up on my neck. The "good" side of these antennas being so small is that they can easily be put into EVERYTHING. The "BAD" side is that these antennas can be put in EVERYTHING! Really I feel that this will be taken WAY to far and I will guarantee the governments are looking at using this type of tech to track all their citizens to the nth degree, beyond simple cameras.With this you can keep track of the movement of all items tagged, no matter where they are. 8 meters is 25ft which could be the middle of a home, so someone standing outside could potentially read the tag of every item in the house.
At about 6 centimeters long, these antennas send and receive radio signals at 2.4 gigahertz, a frequency commonly used for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communications.
Gogotsi’s team also used titanium carbide films to make radio frequency identification tags, similar to the antitheft tags attached to merchandise at department stores. The researchers’ superslim ID tags can be scanned up to eight meters away. “You can imagine unmanned stores, where every item has a simple and cheap [identification] tag, and those tags are automatically read when a customer leaves the store” to charge that person’s account, Gogotsi says.
The path to evil is paved with good intentions is I think the saying.
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