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Radio Re-Volt: Broadcasting For The Common Man
An anonymous reader writes "Well, almost for the common man. This Wired article describes a project of the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis to teach people about the power of radio through the use of cheap low-power FM transmitters. Although each transmitter is limited to a range of about a block, they're cheap enough that I could see them being spread out across a city to cover it with a signal. It'd be interesting to do something like that and feed these inexpensive networks via a netcast. You could use something like this to air programming that commercial stations won't broadcast because it's not commercially viable or because it doesn't fit in with the interests of big media. You can read the above article or go directly to the Radio Re-Volt Web site."
Of course that wouldn't work if you were in the US because they don't have the Internet there yet. Perhaps for a backwards nation like the US where the media is tightly controlled by the Stat^H^H^HCorporate overlords, this is a really big step. But for modern countries net streaming a far better broadcasting alternative.
I don't like the idea of more EM radiation flying around. What kind of hazard would all these broadcasts be to people's health? Is it worth even thinking about?
Switching from an aluminium foil hat to tinfoil should be adequate for a one watt FM transmitter.
And whenever someone walks near you with a cell phone? They're trying to hack your brain.