The days of climbing atop your roof, wrapping yourself in tin foil and striking a techie yoga pose just to get a better wireless signal may soon be coming to an end.

Anthony Sutera, of military tech firm Chamtech, spoke recently at Google's "Solve for X" event where he introduced the company's spray-on coating that can not only boost phone reception but can turn just about anything into an antenna.

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"Can you imagine" a "device being able to transmit from the depths of the oceans to outer space, effortlessly transmitting between themselves?" Sutera asked. "Think about a highway...you have a painted stripe and have broad band connectivity connected to your vehicle as you" drive "down the highway."

The aerosol spray coats an object's surface with thousands of nanocapacitors and spray-on particles that can turn a wall -- or even a tree -- into a transmitter.

"Within five minutes we had" the tree "connected and transmitting on VHF to an airplane 14 miles overhead -- double the range we could get from a standard antenna on the ground," Sutera said.

Sutera's team sprayed a third generation iPhone antenna with the material and boosted the signal by almost 10 percent.

"What we're talking about is a profound way of thinking -- a whole paradigm change on antenna technology," Sutera said. "What we'd like to think about" are "ways to enable wireless connectivity anywhere."