Many find these smartphone towers, that protruded like mushrooms everywhere in recent years, one of the most unsavory sights of the cities we live in. How about replacing all these towers with a small 2 inch by 2 inch boxes? No, this is not some wishful thinking. Courtesy, Murray Hill-based Bell Labs, unsightly Cell phone towers can indeed be replaced by 2-inch cubes.
Tod Sizer, head of wireless research at Bell Labs, is the person behind the 2-inch cube, that can not only have the potential to dump all the cell phone towers, once and for all; but also to revolutionize the way cell phone operators do their business.
That’s why the magic cube called the lightRadio cube, is generating major buzz among cell phone carriers around the world.
Cell phone antennas at present must be large and high because they rely on sending signals down and outward like an umbrella. But according to researchers at Bell Labs, the lightCube directs cell phone signals more directly using far less power, while handling as much as 30 percent more capacity than current cell phone towers. Increased capacity is another advantage as increasing number of consumers clamor for stronger data and voice capabilities on their smartphones.
