Electrical engineers at Stanford built a cardiac device that uses a combination of inductive and radiative transmission of power, at about 1.7 billion cycles per second, to its coiled receiving antenna.

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The setup consisted of a radar emitter made out of one coffee can and a second can with a couple of LEDs attached to serve as a tethered receiver antenna.

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Second, the delivery method is outdated and the extra hardware, including a special antenna, and design requirements increase production costs for little return in value.

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Second, and perhaps bigger news, is that Apple may well turn the negative news about antenna-gate into a new market leadership stake for Apple.

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According to Technology Review, the company's so-called "rural connectivity platform" (or RCP) is able to beam WiFi signals from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away, and at data rates up to 6.5 megabits per second, no less.

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