Can't Find A Wi-Fi Hotspot? Let This T-Shirt Find It For You

October 9, 2007

Consumers walking around a Wi-Fi intensive area are likely to light up like ambulating Geiger counters.

For geeks who never liked all those sports team and resort location T-Shirts, they now have their very own T-Shirt: it's the Wi-Fi Detector Shirt.

The shirt features glowing bars that illuminate as the wearer gets closer to an IEEE 802.11b or g access point. Offered for $29.99 from ThinkGeek, the shirt is powered by three AAA batteries hidden in an inside pocket.

By W. David Gardner InformationWeek

Full Story: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202300930&cid=nl_IWK_daily

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Weaving Batteries into Clothes

A new machine that makes nanostructured fibers could turn soldiers' uniforms into power supplies.

By Kevin Bullis

Full Story: http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19487/?nlid=589