British scientists have figured out how to transmit information at a distance by means of an alcohol vapor - Favorite city

engineers figured out how to transmit information distance using alcohol vapor. Why is it necessary, it is not clear , but they’ve managed to pass the word so the Canadian anthem.

group of researchers from Britain and Canada (University of Warwick and York University) has developed a method by which any information can be transmitted through the evaporating molecules of any volatile substance.

In this case

– ethanol, demonstrating for the first time in the world thus permitting molecular communication.

results of his study are published in the December issue of the journal PLOS ONE.

Molecular signaling in animal and plant world is not uncommon. For example, bees use pheromones to communicate to others about the threat to the hive. However, these “negotiations” information is very scarce and consist of only a single bit – there is no smell or odor. However, the molecule can in principle any number of fill bits. Such communication would be very useful for people, where radio waves do not apply, – underground, underwater tunnels, pipes, etc.

molecular communication method developed by the authors, is very simple. Information translated into binary code and then transmitted using an alcohol spray, which acts as edinichki jetting into the air, and the role of zero – its absence.

Scientists have demonstrated their work methods in York, passing the alcohol first words of the Canadian national anthem, “O Canada!”. Receiver decrypting messages molecular been made available to all of the electronics and developers cost approximately one hundred dollars.

course, spirit communication, as well as general communication via alcohol, has its limitations – it can help to transfer large text, say, or video, of course, possible, but it is associated with great loss of time, and a range of transmission is low but in those cases when there is nothing else, and when the time does not matter, this method of communication can be very useful.

Anyway, but multi-bit molecular level communication was first demonstrated.

Scientists believe that their technique huge range of applications – from communication already described situations without radio waves to nanotechnology. One of the co-development, Dr. Weiss Guo from the University of Warwick, even suggested its use as an arsenal for secret agents.

«Imagine that someone sends details spirits, – he says. – Sounds, of course, like something out of a spy thriller, but in fact it is an incredibly easy way of communication ».

unlikely, of course, interested in radio on perfume today James Bond.

of the most real applications – wireless monitoring of oil-producing plants and sewers, which could advance warning of disasters such as oil spills or the birth of “fetberga” pyatnadtsatitonnogo iceberg fat accumulated in the underground tunnels of London, which this year is a very complicated there job urban sanitation services.