Imagine sitting on your couch at home and, with the wave of an arm, turning up the volume on your stereo, or flipping the channel on a television set across the room. A few more hand waves could shut off the lights in distant rooms, or cause a fireplace to blaze to life.
Tag Archives: WiFi
Mitchel Raphael on how MPs get wired and fete Robbie Burns
Some MP hotspots
Brooklyn basketball nets WIFI
Sports stadiums want to enter the smartphone era. The challenge: connecting 100,000 fans.
Using homeless people as WiFi hotspots
A Texas company is selling this as a ‘charitable innovation initiative’
Does WiFi pose health risks?
If you fear WiFi, you may also want to steer clear of baby powder
On the run from radio frequencies
Some Canadians go to great lengths to escape waves of radiation from electronics that are considered harmless
Good news, bad news: July 28-August 4
Shooting victim Gabrielle Giffords returns to Congress for the U.S. debt vote, tens of thousands of Somalis flee famine in Kenya
‘That this is even a debate in the 21st century should concern any educated person’
Brian Dunning responds to Elizabeth May’s wi-fi concerns.
‘I think the controversy has created a good teaching moment’
Elizabeth May explains, at length, her feelings about electromagnetic radiation.
In the air tonight
The fallout from Elizabeth May’s wifi fears