Getting submarines talking to airplanes, finally
Channel: MIT Media Lab
Date: 2018-08-22

Until recently, there has never been a way to send communication signals between air and water. If an underwater submarine passes beneath a plane in the sky, there's been no way for them to communicate with each other without having the submarine surface, jeopardizing its location to an adversary. Fadel Adib and Francesco Tonolini of MIT Media Lab have developed  a way to connect these seemingly dissonant mediums through something called Translational Acoustic-RF communication, or TARF. Using sound waves from underwater, and radar from the air, messages can be transmitted by creating faint ripples on the surface of the water. 

Professor: Fadel Adib
Student author: Francesco Tonolini
Student Collaborator: JunSu Jang
Video Producer: Jimmy Day

More information at: tarf.media.mit.edu

More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/

Note: Video has no spoken audio. Music plays throughout.