Software defined radio...
A very cool idea... even if the Guardian did steal the headline from the name of our old project at [V]. (More proof -- if it was needed -- that there is no such thing as an original idea.)

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Radio active revolution: "Instead of specialist radio hardware, a software radio uses a simple receiver to throw the entire contents of a range of frequencies into computer memory, where software - and not hardware - does the signal processing. Vanu Inc, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took an ordinary, off-the-shelf Hewlett-Packard iPaq personal digital assistant and, using only a simple radio receiver and an upgrade to the Linux operating system, was able to demonstrate the device working as an FM radio. "
- posted by slaughts @ 7:48 PM