Wi-Fi is all around us, and now it has a new trick Kevin Clogstoun/Getty
Wi-Fi is good for more than just getting your computer online – it can be a computer in and of itself. By bouncing Wi-Fi waves around a room in a precise and controlled manner, they can be used as an 鈥渁nalogue computer鈥 to do complex calculations.
This unusual application is the brainwave of Philipp del Hougne at the Langevin Institute in France and Geoffroy Lerosey at tech startup Greenerwave. They created a way to use microwaves like the ones that carry Wi-Fi聽to perform calculations as they…
