Cave-Loving 16-Year-Old Develops Underground Texting System
Filed under: Cell Phones , Visionaries As many city-dwellers know, it’s hard to scrap together even a few seconds of cell phone service in underground metros or subways. But a student barely old enough to drive has just invented a new device that can send text messages from well below the surface. Los Alamos, New Mexico’s 16-year old Alexander Kendrick won the 2009 International Science Fair for developing a cave radio device that could drastically alter the landscape of cave research — and save lives in the process. Employing low-frequency radio waves, Kendrick’s cavernous communicator transmits messages from deep below the Earth’s surface to identical receivers above ground. As NPR reports , Kendrick recently sent a message from 1,000 feet below sea level, which was successfully received by his father, perched directly above ground. The feat marked the deepest known digital communication ever achieved in the United States. Continue reading Cave-Loving 16-Year-Old Develops Underground Texting System Cave-Loving 16-Year-Old Develops Underground Texting System originally appeared on Switched on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read
