This little bug will add wifi to any hardware you want

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Tech on Thursday 16 May 2013

Minneapolis-based Spark Devices, a team of engineers, designers and makers, have been working on the Spark Core, an open source Arduino-compatible device that connects the Internet to any hardware using Wifi. It’s a little board that looks more like a bug than the powerhouse it is: it has a 72 MHz ARM Cortex M3, a [...]

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Microsoft gives away free wifi in issues of Forbes magazine

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in Tech on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Next time you pick up a Forbes magazine, check to see if it’s got free wifi. Yes, that’s right, Microsoft is giving out free wifi in a select number of Forbes magazines. The magazine is equipped with free wifi for fifteen days, and up to five devices can connect at a time. The magazine router [...]

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Yes, that Israeli donkey ride comes with wifi

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Friday 5 October 2012

Talk about roving wifi hotspots. At Kfar Kedem, a historical theme park in Israel, you can get wifi for your connection-starved devices on — of all places — a donkey. There are 30 donkeys at the attraction, of which five now carry wifi routers wherever they go so that park visitors can tweet, post Facebook [...]

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