Dec 19 2007Watch Detects Wi-Fi Signal Strength
They're already selling a Wi-Fi detecting shirt, and now Thinkgeek is bringing the technology from chest to wrist with a Wi-Fi detecting watch. The unit costs $30 and will give you a signal strength read-out from 0 to 8 with the push of a button. It also works as a watch, alarm, and calendar. And to prove it's watch functionality, just look at the two pictures there. Notice anything? They were taken 6 minutes and 36 seconds apart! Hmm, I guess that doesn't really prove the watch works, just that the time can change. I really need to work on my logic. It's like the time I told my girlfriend if my breath didn't smell like liquor there is absolutely no way I could be drunk. She totally bought it until she found the turkey baster I'd been using to shoot gin up my ass.
wi-fi detector watch finds free signals [technabob]
Reader Comments
1. ar - December 19, 2007 4:03 PM
You can do that with a program on the gameboy DS.
2. The Moat - December 19, 2007 4:21 PM
"You can do that with a program on the gameboy DS."
Yes, but you look slightly less spastic walking around looking at your watch.
SLIGHTLY.
3. guate6 - December 19, 2007 11:26 PM
You know...while they keep making these detectors that tell you where the wi-fi signal is and where it's strongest and what not...a ton of them are still under a security-key that disallows access to the internet. Shoot, even my laptop has a wi-fi detector...it looks like an antenna and shows the distance of the different networks. I wouldn't want to buy a shirt or watch that does what my computer already does.
For the people who really need internet at any given time, get a sat-phone and rig it up to the pc so you can visit geekologie anytime you want (or any other website of course).
4. BeautyandtheBoost.com - December 19, 2007 11:56 PM
wow!!
5. PipiVanShnauser - December 20, 2007 12:02 AM
this is a must have!!
6. boredom - December 20, 2007 8:11 AM
holy shit the internet is getting worse than Crack. Even drug addicts didn't have watches that point to crack dealers in the area. YOU'RE NOT THAT IMPORTANT so you don't HAVE to check your email every 10 minutes.