Are you searching for a way to determine if WiFi is available for your laptop or other electronic gadget? Well look no further, because now there is the WiFi detector T-Shirt.

You could search and probably find someone willing to do what you need for the price you are willing to pay. You could also probably find a “solution” that requires only the amount of effort you are willing to provide to your project.
That doesn’t mean either is going to contribute to the health of your [...]

In a previous post, I talked about 5 wireless tech inventions that don’t exist yet. Some were serious, some fun, and some nonsense, as one reader pointed out in the comments. Here are five more ideas that use one or more forms of wireless technology that some designer/ inventor might just be dreaming up. Feel [...]

With all the latest wireless technologies (RFID, Bluetooth, GPS, Wi-Fi) available these days, it’s interesting to imagine how they might be combined into new applications with consumer electronics to create hybrid uses. Some of the ideas in the list below are serious, some just for fun. It’s not so much the wireless technology nor the [...]

Back in early 1982, Ottawa (Canada’s capital) city’s transit system was trying out a new service whereby you could call a phone number and find out when the next bus for your stop (coded with a unique number) would be arriving. The way the system worked was that you called a unique phone number for [...]

In Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club, a group of Chinese-American immigrant women form a bond. And a bank account. Pooling their money together during Mahjong games, they lend it out to someone in their group, should they need it. The idea is brilliant, and the idea of women pooling together money has been [...]