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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."
wow. that actually *does* feel good. :)