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Hedy Lamarr Helped Invent Wifi
Hedy Lamarr: This might be the most bizarre piece of trivia you’ll hear today (for the young ones among us — Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress back in the 40s; one of the “screen sirens” of the Golden Age of Cinema). [...] Antheil and Lamarr submitted the idea of a secret communication system in June [...]
Withings and “Connected Health” Devices
For Christmas last year, my wife bought me a Withings Wi-fi Body Scale. This is a scale that sits in my bathroom and talks to my wi-fi network. Whenever I weigh myself, it transmits my weight to Withings website, where I can log on and see a chart of my weight over time. (It also [...]
Bluetooth Watch
Wristwatches, Reimagined – Will Young Shoppers Care?: This is kinda cool, but who really wears a watch anymore? I mean, people under, say, 50. I think they’re reaching with this one. This version has Bluetooth, but the long-term vision is to give it the wireless capability to be the hub of every Internet-ready portable device [...]
Wi-Fi at Conferences: Still Terrible
Wi-Fi Overload at High-Tech Meetings: They talked about the Web 2 Summit in this article. I was there, I have to say that it was better than most, but still terrible. Internet entrepreneurs climb on stage at technology conferences and praise a world in which everyone is perpetually connected to the Web. But down in [...]
Anti-Wi-Fi Paint
Anti-Wi-Fi paint keeps your wireless signal to yourself : Nice. The idea is simple: Use a special paint on walls where you don’t want wireless to pass through (say the exterior of your house). The secret is mixing aluminum-iron oxide particles in with the paint. The metal particles resonate at the same frequency as Wi-Fi [...]
Viewsonic LinkPC
Viewsonic’s square-shaped PC to mount your monitor: This is severely awesome. $400. The LinkPC or ViePC (Viewsonic’s press material claims two different names) is Viewsonic’s most unique offering at CES. The LinkPC is a small, square-shaped PC that attaches to the back of any VESA-compatible monitor. The device is powered by an Intel Atom 1.6GHz [...]
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Computers!
Just when everybody was so excited about the so-called iPod killer, Zune, Apple comes out with something new that blows it out of the water. CEO Steve Jobs earlier this morning showed off the new Apple iPhone, and from the looks of it, there will be little reason left to have much for a computer [...]
Zune vs. iPod Review
Zune vs. iPod: the battle begins: Fortune reviews the Zune against the iPod and the winner is…the iPod. But it’s not as much of a runaway victory as you’d expect. The Zune did quite well in a couple areas, and, as Fortune notes, it’s the first model out the door. It’s only going to get [...]
Statewide WiFi in Rhode Island
Rhode Island wants statewide Wi-Fi: The true testament to how small Rhode Island is: $20 million gets you wi-fi across the entire state. America’s smallest state is seeking to become its first to offer a wireless broadband network from border to border. Backers of Rhode Island’s $20 million project say it would improve services and [...]
I Told You They Were Cool!
Engadget has linked to a story on Wi-Fi Planet about the hackability or the WRT54G. We covered this a while ago, but I went hardcore with mine and did everything with the console and config scripts. This article covers a distribution called DD-WRT that wraps a lot of the more common OpenWrt enhancements up into [...]