This is different than using wireless transmitters to relay measurements from conventional breathing monitors.

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If left unprotected, these same wireless transmitters can be tapped by hackers to collect personal data, or even reprogram the implant.

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The technology, based around an "organic semiconductor" called pentacene (a hydrocarbon molecule) and a comparative instrument known as a Wheatstone bridge, can be embedded in fabrics such as undershirts and coupled with wireless transmitters.

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On the higher end is the updated YSP-4100, above, a rather tall but only 9cm deep soundbar with the receiver integrated that can be mounted on the wall right beneath your giant HDTV and then paired with a selection of wireless transmitters for iPods and the like.

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The final few hundred metres to the house will be crossed with a wireless connection, using transmitters mounted on Tepco's electricity poles and tiny receivers plugged into a subscriber's personal computer.

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In addition to the receiver, TI's bq500410A is the first WPC 1.1-ready wireless power transfer controller to support A6 transmitters.

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In 1900, Marconi patented improvements for transmitters and receivers that solved the problem of the jamming of wireless signals.

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For one thing, white-space transmitters have to avoid interfering with both local television stations and the wireless microphones used in conference halls, sports arenas, theatres and churches.

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