Wireless "Pulse" Technology

mustard writes " This is an article in USA Today about a technology that uses energy pulses to transmit data. It's fast as the speed of light, cell phones could be as small as a wristwatch, and you could have only 1 tower every 100 miles. It uses new chip technology from IBM, and as an example, they cite that it could support over 2,000 cellphones per block, as opposed to coventional cellular today which is about 400 per block. But it's not limited to that, it can be used for cheap personal radar as well. Well worth a read, fascinating stuff. In a related story, the inventor of the patent is in a dispute with a government funded lab who, according to congress, stole the idea."