Wireless-Friendly Microwaves

Makarand writes "According to this article on ABC News, scientists at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have stumbled upon a simple and elegant solution to keep your kitchen microwave from becoming a noisy nuisance to your home Wi-Fi network. They found that they could focus the microwaves into a single frequency and reduce noisy microwave emissions by placing ordinary magnets in specific patterns along the magnetron . New techniques to reduce microwave interference will be needed when Wi-Fi enabled entertainment systems will allow digital audio and video to be transmitted to different rooms of a house wirelessly. Packet drops in such a sytem would degrade the video and audio experience."

Comments

what about the millions of legacy microwaves?

[Anonymous Coward]

I will continue to have the people in the appartment next door toasting my WiFi.

Re:DIY?

[mooface]

Probably because the magnets have to be placed inside the microwave, close to the tube....and one doesn't want the average consumer messing around in there...