{"id":144075,"date":"2015-10-29T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=144075"},"modified":"2015-10-29T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:27:28","slug":"seeing-through-walls-using-wireless-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/144075-seeing-through-walls-using-wireless-signals.html","title":{"rendered":"Seeing through walls using wireless signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csail.mit.edu\/RF_capture\" target=\"_blank\">has unveiled new technology<\/a><\/strong>, called RF Capture, that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a human standing behind a solid wall.<\/p>\n<p>By tracking the silhouette, the device can trace a person\u2019s hand as he writes in the air, and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90% accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, from the opposite side of a building, RF Capture can determine where you are, who you are, and which hand you are moving.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the technology could have major implications for everything from gaming and filmmaking to emergency response.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7LTr02cJkiA\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More science news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/143674-the-blackest-material-ever-created.html\"><strong>The blackest material ever created<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/143564-this-is-how-the-world-will-end.html\"><strong>This is how the world will end<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/141396-university-of-cape-town-smashes-world-altitude-record-for-water-rocket.html\"><strong>University of Cape Town smashes world altitude record for water rocket<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT researchers have shown that wireless signals like Wi-Fi can be used to see things that are invisible to the naked eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,33637,7699,33639],"class_list":["post-144075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-csail","tag-mit","tag-rf-capture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144103,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075\/revisions\/144103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}