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T-Shirt Lights Up in Wi-Fi Zones

by Tim Stevens on October 8, 2007 at 02:31 PM

Wired Shirt IDs Wireless NetworksIf you're the type who's always hungry for a little bit of Wi-Fi -- maybe because you're sick of the molasses-like downloads to your iPhone on AT&T's EDGE network -- then you're the perfect candidate for this new t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It boasts a light-up Wi-Fi detector on the front that contains the familiar antenna-and-bars graphic to indicate signal strength. When it finds a hot spot, the shirt graphic blinks and glows blue, alerting you to the signal and alerting everyone else to your deeply nerdy ways.

Three AAA batteries connected by a thin wire to the decal power the thing. The batteries and the glowing graphic can both be removed for washing, so while you'll definitely have to look like a nerd while wearing this shirt, you won't necessarily have to smell like one ...

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