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ROBERT J. CROWLEY
The Chicago Tribune article
Slapping on a coat of silence said
The intrusion of cellular
phone rings into theaters, schools and nearly
every other nook and cranny of modern life may soon hit a
wall.
Playing to the backlash against ubiquitous communication, a company
called NaturalNano is developing a special high-tech paint that relies on
the wizardry of nanotechnology to create a system that locks out unwanted
cell phone signals on demand...
Robert Crowley of AMBIT Corp., which designed the radio filtering
device for NaturalNano, said the system is legal. The nanotech-augmented
paint that blocks signals is a passive device, not an illegal radio
jammer, he said.
The radio filter would allow all emergency radio communications to pass
through the shield, Crowley said. With all other signals, like cell
phones, the filter would act like a spigot to block or allow them to pass
through — say, only during intermission.
Robert J. Crowley is head of
Soundwave Research
which has developed ways to
see tiny structures within the human body
and is
President and Co-founder of
AMBIT Corporation which develops new technologies in areas where
rapid, highly
proprietary innovation is taking place.
Under his direction, AMBIT Corporation has developed technology
portfolios in the areas of cellular telephone antennas and hands-free
systems, high-speed local area network ports, human-machine input devices
such as touch sensors and cursor control systems, and nanoscale
electronic structures employing
carbon nanotubes as electrical circuit
elements.
Bob has served in many new technology development positions, most
recently as Director of Imaging Product Development at
Boston Scientific
Corporation. His duties included directing the Imaging and
Sensing Laboratory which developed disease detection and therapy guidance
systems. His group was largely responsible for the initial technical
development of a new heart imaging modality —
IntraVascular UltraSound
(IVUS) — which is now standard in hospital environments and is used
to
quickly visualize heart blockages.
He has generated over 100 U.S. and foreign patents and applications in
the
fields of antenna systems, cellular telephony equipment, carbon
nanostructures and processes, portable keyboarding systems, human force
sensors, medical ultrasound imaging, drug release therapies,
lightwave-based cancer detection systems, optical coherence tomography
devices, and coronary catheters and guidewires.
Bob received a BA degree from Framingham State Teacher's College
in Massachusetts, where he studied to be a teacher, an artist and a
writer. He is the author of a number of publications and invited book
chapters describing his work in medical imaging, and he continues to be
an invited guest speaker on topics involving new ways to see within the
human body.
Listen
to Bob's interview by CBS News Technology Consultant Larry Magid!
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