Mobile Wifi Backpack

ruzel writes "Julian Bleecker's web site TechKwonDo describes a project that is a wifi base station in a backpack. 'WiFi.Bedouin is a wearable, mobile 802.11b node disconnected from the global Internet. It forms a WiFi "island Internet" challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks that are based on physical proximity rather than solely connectivity.' The motivation is essentially subversive but what other uses are there for a device like this?"

Out for a run?

[baudilus]

So instead of war driving will there be war running?

Other uses..

[Anonymous Coward]

I dunno... Looking stupid, maybe?

Can you imagine...

[Patrick Bateman]

... a Beowulf cluster of these?

Re:Out for a run?

[ComradeX13]

Gotta... keep... going... ISO... almost... finished...

War Packing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now we have another "war {something}" to add to our list so teens can feel cool lugging a bunch of electronics around on their backs/in their cars/on their heads.

/.ed?

[ComradeX13]

Quick, someone build one and run out to their server... I think we need a mirror.

Mobile pr0n!

[mao che minh]

YES!

Re:Out for a run?

[minus_273]

hey at least geeks wont have a reputation for being out of shape

Error 404

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

Error 404

The page you requested was not found on the server. Perhaps you should try taking several steps in the geographic direction of the server you are requesting the document from.

Re:Out for a run?

[ZigiSamblak]

Yeah, we'll all be runnin' round trying to crash each others backpacks. In the end the person with the most updated, most secure OS and software on his backpack will be the winner. It will be so much fun, the nerds ultimate wet dream!

Its all about "spin"

[Chris_Stankowitz]

"What idiot marketing person came up with the term "island internet". The words are mutually exclusive.

The person that is trying to get Internet gambling on US soil. You see this way, he calls him self an "Island", puts a Hawiian shirt, some shorts and Sandals with black socks pulled up to his knees and voilla..... Instant offshore-onshore Gambling!!

Island Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Gilligan's Island with the coconut battery pack.

Re:"island internet"

[DR SoB]

Actually it's a mobile LAN.

Re:Google Cache

[HiredMan]

I dunno, maybe the person wearing their webserver went for coffee and is just out of range right now.

=tkk

Re:Gamers, criminals, and subversives.

[DR SoB]

I plan on beating the shit out of the first moron I see playing a FPS on a bus.

Besides, where is the uplink??

great idea!

[Roger Keith Barrett]

Playing games with power gloves and VR glasses in a park would cause a bigger panic than the War of the Worlds broadcast!

Re:Mobile pr0n!

[RobertB-DC]

It's called a girlfriend. Look into it.

Unfortunately, the "girlfriend" protocol requires direct connectivity before remote image download can occur. In fact, users of this protocol often find themselves purchasing the packet wrapper for the sole purpose of removing it when the packet is received.

Mobile pr0n with a 20-ft radius has the advantage of getting you ping access to a server that normally would not allow the receiver within 10-ft (distance measured with a device called a "pole").

Instead of Slashdotted...

[Anonymous Coward]

...we can now say "his server is out of range."

Re:What the fuck?

[SuiteSisterMary]

Don't forget, it's 'subversive.' Yes, you too can destabilize government and society by carting around a fucking access point.

Re:Gamers, criminals, and subversives.

[Jaguar777]

Can you say organized crime?
Sure...

organized crime.

Any other questions?

Re:Out for a run?

[boisepunk]

Coming next fall:

WIFI DEATHMATCH!

Watch as 16 geeks battle until only one has a functioning wifi backpack.
All of the secure and nonsecure Operating Systems will be featured.
Who will emerge victorious? Find out next fall!

Security issues can be completely ignored...

[Gruneun]

if you can run faster than your opponent.

When I was a kid...

[mkro]

When I was a kid, the ice cream truck came by our house once a week. The bell could be heard ringing from a distance, and the kids ran out to stand ready to hail it to a stop.
Now, 20 years later - introducing... the WAREZ TRUCK - driving from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, wifi-serving the latest games from Razor, Fairlight and Deviance, the latest movies from groups as Centropy and Brutus, and the latest hi-quality porn from NovaVCD, Swe6rus and others (Parental advisory - reproductive organs in motions).

Great Concept, but...

[Salvo]

Wouldn't it require that I actually leave the house? ;)

Subversive use of backpack server

[BillX]

Post link to a wireless backpack Web server strapped to some dude's back on Slashdot:
$FREE

Watch /.ed backpack dude run around screaming and trying futilely to put himself out:
$PRICELESS