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Anti-WiFi Wallpaper Available Next Year
hypnosec writes with good news for folks who want to live in a Faraday cage. From the article: "A new type of wallpaper, which has been developed by scientists from the Institut Polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier, will go on sale in 2013 after a Finnish firm Ahlstrom acquired the license. What looks like a bog-standard wallpaper roll actually contains silver particles that allows it to filter out up to three different frequencies simultaneously. It is not the first time that such a technology has surfaced. Back in 2004, BAE Systems was tasked by Ofcom to come up with a similar solution based on what was then called a stealth wallpaper. It used copper instead of silver and blocked Wi-Fi signals while letting GSM, 4G and emergency calls through. Back then, though, a square meter cost £500, whereas the Wi-Fi wallpaper devised by the French researchers should be priced reasonably, with costs matching those of a 'classic,' mid-range wallpaper according to M. Lemaître-Auger, from Grenoble INP."
Americans do not use wallpaper much.
But if they would just use tin foil instead of silver (really, how bourgeois) it would be a major hit.
At least here on Slashdot. Maybe ThinkGeek could sell it.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
ooo Tinfoil curtains! I'll make a killing, or rather my wife will when she sees them.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Goodbye tin foil hat; hello stylish wallpaper hat.
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I used this wallpaper on my desktop, and now my wifi no longer works.
Took me a while to figure it out, but I've since switched back to my old wallpaper, and everything is fine now.