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Wi-Fi Gaming
JeremyZiff writes "Wi-Fi Toys is a featured article on ExtremeTech that shows you how you and your friends can run around your city and play six nifty games with a Wi-Fi connection. From games like Capture the Flag to Treasure Hunt, you'll never look at Wi-Fi the same again."
But I'm still waiting for wireless dodgeball...
I already know i'm going to hell, now i'm just trying to get cable down there.
These games come in many forms, such as a "fox and hounds" game, capture the flag, or a treasure hunt.
In the 1973 Woody Allen comedy, Sleeper, it was cigarettes that turned out to promote health. Now, we have instances where video games promote physical activity.
I think (hope!) that we'll be reading in Wired about a young entrepreneur who turns this into a viable business, either as a service, where games are hosted professionally (as in MMORPGs), or as a product, where games are purchased and played on a peer-to-peer basis (as in most retail games). Perhaps I'm looking at this through rose-colored glasses, (I miss playing laser tag as a kid), but I think this has the potential to turn out some fantastic stuff.
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TFA is kinda neat, includeing some geeky fun that encourages real-world social activities. It mentions "safe" war-driving, as in always having a passenger who operates the laptop for the driver. A lil too geeky for me, but still a lot more fun than configuring a wi-fi setup.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Only slashdot geeks would go to that extent to play video games.
Running around playing a CTF game instead of ACTUALLY playing Capture the Flag with REAL PEOPLE...
Makes perfect sense to me.
Jonahweb.com has stuff.
Just wait until one of these games causes an auto accident!!! LEGIONS of paranoid mothers and anti-gaming groups will call for the end of Wi-Fi because it's too dangerous for the children, THE CHILDREN!!!
called "Get the the neighbor arrested".
It's real easy - we each pick a victim, we each point our little waveguides at our victim's AP, and we each see who can get the cops to show up and arrest the victim, first.
Perhaps not today, but I'll wager that by end of year... the above joke won't just be a fiction, and it scares the willies out of me for some reason.
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am
...shows you how you and your friends can run around your city
My what?
I read Slashdot for the articles