NEC develops Wideband Wearable Antenna

TV's important right? Sure, now ask yourself: Is it important enough to turn your meat sack into a wideband antenna? NEC thinks so and just announced (officially, that is) its wideband wearable antenna which turns a small, flexible print substrate into a high-performance mobile antenna. The prototype is said to work equally well in open space or when operated up against the juicy impedance of the human body. NEC will be testing the first prototypes for reception of digital terrestrial broadcasts in the 470-770MHz band -- perfect for that upcoming FCC auction eh, cowboy?

[Via Akihabara News]

[Hardcore718 @ Nov 21st 2007 11:33PM]

Happy halloween everyone!

haha

[lettcco @ Oct 31st 2007 7:03AM]

to impotency and beyond!

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 31st 2007 7:13AM]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

HAPPY HALOWEEN!

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[strider_mt2k @ Oct 31st 2007 8:24AM]

Oh yeah, sorry.

Antennas are good, connection techniques, gain, VSWR, blah blah blah

Hey that guy looks like Spongebob hahahaha holy crap he fell down! hahaha

Look I really have to go, sorry....

[Paul @ Oct 31st 2007 8:43AM]

Talk about an interesting choice of words: "turn your meat sack into a wideband antenna"

I think I will keep my.... er.... "meat sack" far, far away from something that evokes images of a radar dish.

[John Giotta @ Oct 31st 2007 9:37AM]

Al Franken did this as a bit on "The Daily Show". He was live from Iraq with a dish-mounted helmet.

[phil @ Oct 31st 2007 9:44AM]

@John Giotta:

Al Frankin did the "one man self contained remote uplink" bit on SNL looong before the Daily Show. The late 80s/early 90s when Denis Miller was the Weekend Update anchor. The live remote from the crack house is a classic.

[Kizorblade @ Oct 31st 2007 9:12AM]

To infinity, and beyond!

[fourthletter @ Oct 31st 2007 9:19AM]

Yeah love the high quality photoshop work guys, really horrible yellow glow, don't you employ any designers ?

[iptydafu @ Oct 31st 2007 9:19AM]

Can't they just wire the damn thing into a pace-maker already, and get it over with? Everytime my heart-rhythm goes nuts, everyone will get a 10% download increase on their bt.

[John Giotta @ Oct 31st 2007 1:03PM]

Oh really? I did not know that, thanks for the info :)

[Whiplash @ Oct 31st 2007 10:21AM]

That poor kid.... too funny!

[DP @ Oct 31st 2007 5:14PM]

Funny indeed.

[holycow @ Oct 31st 2007 10:52AM]

where's woody ?

[Dan @ Oct 31st 2007 11:10AM]

http://franken.8k.com/cgi-bin/i/snlpic5.gif

A better visual, methinks.

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 31st 2007 6:40PM]

son, make a quarter-turn to the left, i'm still getting static.

[corey @ Nov 1st 2007 10:50AM]

Ok ... how did they get my photo .... -,-?