September 12, 2006
Diamonds Are A Cell (Phone)'s Best Friend
Marilyn Monroe and dozens of starlets may have sung that "Diamonds are a girl's best friend", but cell phones might love them too. Or at least, cell phone owners. According to a combined academic and industrial research project, diamonds may help improve cell phone reception [Cellular News]. In particular, a new material called UNCD (UltraNanoCrystalline Diamond) could be used to make highly accurate tuning forks, which would dramatically improve reception and transmission of cellular signals.
The project is being conducted by the US Dept of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, and funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency). You know that when DARPA gets involved, initial applications will be of the military variety first. Such research, however, is unlikely to apply to IP telephony or even Wi-Fi communications. So such improved call quality wouldn't apply to mobile VoIP calls.
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