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Nintendo DS Wireless in Freefall

Nicholas Roussos writes "Wired reports about four skydivers who decided to give the Nintendo DS wireless capabilities a try while they were freefalling. 'The four sky divers proved that an ad hoc network set up using the wireless functions of a Nintendo DS works perfectly at distances of nearly 400 feet while falling 120 miles an hour,' states the article."

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  1. excellent.. research at its finiest by peculiarmethod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is wonderful news for any dirt poor terrorist state or organization who wishes to drop cheap DS enabled bombs from a crop duster. All that hard research done for free!

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