Magicbikes
December 17, 2003 9:22 AM Subscribe
The coolest thing I've heard of all year: Magicbikes (NYT registration required) "Mr. Gitman, an artist who is teaching a class at the Parsons School of Design in collaboration with Eyebeam, a media arts organization, intended the stunt to be a demonstration of his Magicbikes - ordinary bicycles rigged with networking gear that transforms them into wireless Internet access points, using the wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, technology now built into many laptops. "
Two things...
- Will MetaFilter ever evolve past "grouchy" comments like that from hades? My encouragement to all of you, unless you have something to add to the conversation besides some grumblings and a "but this is cool" don't add anything at all. It's boring.
- I'd like to see someone take this idea further and power the WiFi with the peddling from the bikers themselves.
posted by jasenlee at 12:32 PM on December 17, 2003
- Will MetaFilter ever evolve past "grouchy" comments like that from hades? My encouragement to all of you, unless you have something to add to the conversation besides some grumblings and a "but this is cool" don't add anything at all. It's boring.
- I'd like to see someone take this idea further and power the WiFi with the peddling from the bikers themselves.
posted by jasenlee at 12:32 PM on December 17, 2003
It'd be a wonderful toy to have, but there's one problem: Expensive bikes are generally impractical 'cause they're basically thief bait.
posted by freakystyley at 8:46 PM on December 17, 2003
posted by freakystyley at 8:46 PM on December 17, 2003
Add a GPS receiver, and your expensive thief-bait bike can automatically post the coördinates of its chop shop to your blog.
Oh, and some earlier 802.11-on-bikes activity.
posted by hattifattener at 1:09 AM on December 19, 2003
Oh, and some earlier 802.11-on-bikes activity.
posted by hattifattener at 1:09 AM on December 19, 2003
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