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Creating 'a schizogeographic pain-map...'
(old news - 03:28PM Tuesday Nov 13 2007)
tags: wireless · hardware · networking · Oddities
If the Wi-Fi detecting T-Shirt just wasn't -- well -- sadistic enough for you, then we may have your cup of tea. Gizmodo points to a project by Austrian artist Gordan Savicic that puts a painful twist on Wi-Fi network detection. The project consists of a Nintendo-DS controlled vest with servos that detects the number of Wi-Fi signals around you and becomes increasingly (and painfully) tight the more signals it picks up. We'll let the artist explain:
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A chest strap (corset) with high torque servo motors and a WIFI-enabled game-console are worn as fetish object. The higher the wireless signal strength of close encrypted networks, the tighter the corset becomes. Closed network points improve the pleasurable play of tight lacing the performer‘s bustier. Thus, constituting the aether as a space of possible pregnancy, filled with potential access-points to the networks of communication. Everyday walks between home, work and leisure are recompiled into a schizogeographic pain-map which is fetched from GoogleMaps servers with automated scripts.
Kind of "like a version of "Netstumbler" for the S&M crowd," jokes the Make Magazine blog.

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GOLFnSUN
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Only one sicker than the artist would be anyone who buys it

It takes all kinds!!

PolarBear
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Darwin product of the year

I nominate this for Darwin product of the year! Come on, who's with me?

GOLFnSUN
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Re: Darwin product of the year

said by PolarBear See Profile :

I nominate this for Darwin product of the year! Come on, who's with me?
I second it. And suggest the artist wear his contraption to a WiFi trade show - instant death.

Corehhi

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Bluffton, SC
I second the darwin./
expert007

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Buffalo, NY

Re: Darwin product of the year

Lets encircle him with 3 or 4 vivato panels....i think those things have 10 radios each or something like that.

Don't taze me bro!!!!!!!

N3OGH
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Re: Darwin product of the year

OW!!!...OW!!!....OW!!!...OW!!!

pnh102
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said by PolarBear See Profile :

I nominate this for Darwin product of the year! Come on, who's with me?
No kidding... that would turn off most members of the opposite sex in an instant.
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Only SHATNER is Kirk.

FicmanS
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O I am seeing this going HORRIBLY wrong...

News at Eleven... Ditto the Darwin...

capecoddah

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Please !!!

Don't wear to Boston/Logan airport, there is enough "fun" there already.

MrMoody
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Smithfield, NC

Re: Please !!!

No kidding, wearing something like this nowadays is liable to get you shot to death as a terrorist.

Nightshade
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Salem, OR

No Good Can Come From This

But a lot of laughs will.

dadkins
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WTF?

Dumbest item of the New Millennium!

Dominokat
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Wow

Some people have WAAAAYYYYY too much time on thier hands!

odreian615

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Chicago, IL

Check out his site

even have video and a pic of some guy with bruises
»www.yugo.at/equilibre/
lordofwhee

join:2007-10-21
Everett, WA

When nerds get into S&M...

Some people just have way too much free time, and really weird fetishes...

Unit649
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The Sadist in me?

After reading this, why do I have this sudden urge to rewire my router, a-la Tim the Toolman Taylor, in case this guy happens to walk by my house?!?

Just so I can see that thing constrict so hard he hits the ground

More Power!

(yes, the increased network reachability is a plus also!)

Winnow

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I challenge him to walk into an airport wearing that...


NickD
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I want a portable WiFi router and 1 watt amp just for this lol
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