16-Year-Old Develops Underground Texting System

A remarkable teenager in New Mexico has invented a device that may significantly speed that process with the ability to text from underground caves. The young man's invention may have other applications, as well. NPR reports via Switched.

Alexander Kendrick, 16, won the 2009 International Science Fair for inventing this cave-texting device.

The device is something like a computer attached to a ham radio. It transmits data using low-frequency radio waves that can penetrate rock more easily than high-frequency transmissions, like those in FM broadcasts.

If this test succeeded, it would be the deepest known underground digital communication ever to take place in the United States.

emily | 8:36 AM | Technology |
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