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New antennas are up to a hundredth the size of today’s devices

Tiny tech relies on magnetism to relay signals

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TEENY TINY ANTENNAS  A new type of micrometer-thick chip could one day transmit signals from devices embedded in our clothes or even our bodies.

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By Maria Temming

- More than 2 years ago

Antennas just got a whole lot smaller.

Tiny chips that communicate via radio waves are a tenth to a hundredth the length of current state-of-the-art compact antennas.