[CAnet - news] T-shirt lights up when it detects Wifi network

"Bill St.Arnaud" <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:12:32 -0400
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 [Excerpts from info world article from a posting on Dewayne Hendricks list
- BSA]


http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/05/T-shirt-shows-off-Wi-Fi-muscle_1.h
tml?source=NLC-WIR&cgd=2007-10-11


T-shirt shows off Wi-Fi muscle
ThinkGeek is selling a T-shirt with a built-in, battery-powered Wi-Fi signal
detector that lights up like a cell phone signal strength indicator when it
detects a nearby network
With at least one municipal Wi-Fi project being proposed or abandoned
seemingly every day and big carriers like BT Group turning to their
subscribers' Wi-Fi routers to make Wi-Fi available, it's hard to know
exactly where you can get online these days. But a T-shirt going on sale
late this month could solve that problem for you and everyone around you.

The Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, which the online store ThinkGeek will sell for
$29.99, has glowing bars on the front that light up in waves when there's an
IEEE 802.11b or 802.11g network in range.

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