Mobile Wifi Backpack

ruzel writes "Julian Bleecker's web site TechKwonDo describes a project that is a wifi base station in a backpack. 'WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi "island Internet" challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity.' The motivation is essentially subversive but what other uses are there for a device like this?"

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[sndtech]

google cache since its already slashdotted

Cool tool

[metlin]

Would be quite cool to try and study swarm/group behaviour of things like soliders on the warfront. The team squadron leader could have this on his/her back, and we could see how they spread out.

Reminds me of some of the experiments that get performed at the BORG Lab here at GTech.

Look at this guy's work on predicting user behaviour through GPS tracking and the like. Combine that with this kinda queen bee kinda behaviour, am sure we would get something really cool.

Is this some kind of new paradigm in networking? :)

Re:WiFi Pacman

[metlin]

Wasn't something like this done before for Quake?

Different, yes - it used GPS positioning with VR for playing within a University Campus in Australia.

Ah, here you go.

Huh?

[El]

How is this a win over, say, just running 802.11b in Adhoc mode? Whenever I want to do large file transfers between 2 computers, it is faster to switch both to Adhoc, do the transfer, and switch them back then to simply do the transfer through the Access Point... who is it that thinks having this backpack receive and retransmit every packet is a GOOD thing for round trip time?

Re:They got something like that already...

[C.Batt]

(waitaminute - did an April 1 story just get out of the barn a wee bit early?)

I think that you have it there. It looks to me lika a joke in the vein of Dihydrogen Monoxide. Funny in a, "hahaha look at who fell for it, I'm so superior to you" kind of way, I guess.