My recent count -- as of 2 p.m. -- shows that at least 88 people digg the idea. Good news for Rosa Zheng, the UMR researcher involved in the project.

The same acoustic waves that dolphins and whales use to communicate when they are thousands of miles apart can be used by humans to transmit information wirelessly, says Dr. Rosa Zheng, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMR. Her research focuses on shallow water communications, a tool needed for environmental monitoring and other efforts. Shallow water communication is faced with additional challenges because signals are affected by waves and reflections off the ocean’s top and bottom surfaces.

PhysOrg and DailyWireless.org picked up on the UMR news release over the holiday weekend.