News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin A... by jevinskie on Monday July 08, 2013 @12:17AM (#6005168)
Do you have a link? That is fascinating! Did it end up working?
Re:Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin A... by femto on Monday July 08, 2013 @01:53AM (#6005360)
I don't have a link. It got written up as an undergraduate thesis in about 1991, but as far as I know the University of Sydney doesn't keep copies of such documents.

I'm not sure what the outcome was, though it must have gotten to a certain point of success, since I've memories of a car driving around with a corner reflector on it.

The same student was experimenting with using a plasma as the modulated reflector, but that one ended when he connected the wrong end of the vacuum pump to his gear, accidentally pressurised it, and blew it up!