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Technology Review wrote:While demand for wireless data grows exponentially, the supply of available radio spectrum remains stubbornly fixed. A new technology could get more from that precious resource by turning a conventional piece of engineering wisdom on its head.

"Every other wireless system up to now has avoided interference," says Steve Perlman, founder of technology incubator Rearden Labs, based in San Francisco. "This embraces it."

Perlman's team is testing a new kind of wireless network that he says can fit thousands of times more data into the same amount of radio spectrum as a conventional one. The approach is known as DIDO, for distributed input distributed output, and is currently being tested around Palo Alto, California, and in rural Texas.