Yellow chairs for free Wi-Fi
A pair of designer/artists in San Jose, Calif., are trying an experiment in community technology: If they can find a couple of households to volunteer their Wi-Fi networks, they’d …
Top 10 ’strangest’ mini-devices
TechEBlog has come up with another list, this time of the “Top 10 Strangest Mini-Sized Devices.” Our personal favorite: the diminutive “Space Cube”–which, in its 2-inch cubed …
How to upgrade your wireless router
Call us cynical, but we doubt that cities will be blanketing the country with high-bandwidth Wi-Fi networks anytime soon. In the meantime, we’ll be left to our own devices–literally, …
Charging batteries in only seconds
Battery life–or lack thereof–has been an increasingly vexing issue as the wireless universe continues to expand. But MIT researchers think that they may have made a key discovery …
A watch Dick Tracy could wear
Is the Dick Tracy watch phone finally here? Wrist Dreams reports that Citizen is coming out with a Bluetooth wristwatch that “communicates with your mobile phone and displays incoming …