The antenna is 'wearable'

Next-generation personal communication systems can be made with a hard-to-think tool: a sewing machine.

According to news agency UPI, experts from Ohio State University (USA) have said they are studying how to combine the antenna radio on fabric using plastic film extremely thin, metallic thread and a sewing machine old.

New technology will turn people's clothes into extremely effective antennas - ( Photo: Reuters)

This technology can create an antenna with four times the range of a normal human-powered antenna, as the device used by US troops.

Chi-Chih Chen, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State University, said: " Our main goal is to improve the credibility of communications and the dynamics of our soldiers. But this technology can also work for police officers, firefighters and astronauts, who need hands-free work. "

Ohio State University staffers use a small computer control device that allows multiple antennas to work together when sewn together with a small cloth.

The result is an antenna that can transmit and receive signals from all directions, whether behind walls or inside a building without the wearer or wearing an external antenna.

"In a way, we are creating what has been done on cell phones. You no longer see mobile phones that have external antennas anymore, because the antenna has become part of the body of the phone , "said John Volakis, director of the Ohio State University's Electrical Science Laboratory. .