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Magicbike: WiFi Bicycle

» Neat. Magicbike is a bicycle modified to provide wireless Internet access wherever it is parked or ridden.

A Magicbike hotspot operates like standard hotspots, able to serve up to 250 users in a radius of 30 meters indoors and 100 meters outdoors.... A group of bikes can repeat and/or bridge the signal down a chain of wireless bikes. Meaning, a bicycle gang can snake into subways stations or across hilltops to provide Internet connectivity to (fringe but) vital communities and spaces ignored by the traditional telecommunications industry. A grassroots bottom-up wireless infrastructure can be formed and pedaled to any place accessible by bicycle. (emphasis mine)

Think that's cool? Check out this proposed wifi rickshaw from 2003. (Thanks, Rory!)

 [ 05.02.07 ]

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Rebecca’s Pocket has a very interesting article about a Magicbike — a bicycle modified to provide wireless Internet access wherever it is parked or ridden. This might have some nice payoffs in triathlon race tracking and stats. I can’... Read More


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As someone who does quite a few triathlons -- I find this very interesting. Thanks.



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