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Attract attention and make new friends with the WiFi Detector T-Shirt

By // November 6, 2007, 4:15 AM PST // markwkaelin

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  • By Mark Kaelin

    ThinkGeek is offering the WiFi Detector T-Shirt just in time for holiday shopping. If you have any tech geeks on your list, this shirt is almost a must buy. The WiFi Detector T-Shirt will find broadcasting WiFi signals and notify you by flashing indicator lights across your chest. Never be without a WiFi connection again. We took the shirt for a test drive recently to one of our favorite lunch destinations.

  • WiFi Detector T-Shirt

    The packaging is pretty un-extraordinary.

  • Simple packaging

  • An ordinary T-Shirt

  • The detector

  • Battery pack pocket

  • Battery pack

  • Three AAA batteries required

  • Ready to go

  • Detector Removed

    The WiFi detecting part of the shirt can be removed for washing purposes.

  • Connector

    The detector is just a thin piece of plastic.

  • Shirt connector

    The connector on the shirt goes directly to the battery pack.

  • We have WiFi

  • Strong signal

    Here I am standing under one of our Wireless router/switches -- the signal is strong here.

  • Outside

    There is still a WiFi signal in the TechRepublic parking lot, but it is hard to see whether the detector is blinking. Sunlight just overwhelms the shirt making detecting under such circumstances nearly impossible.

  • Shalimar

    The Shalimar Indian Restaurant is one of our favorite lunch destinations.

  • Confirmed

    Yep! There is a strong WiFi signal here.

  • Shalimar's WiFi statement

  • Buffet here I come

  • Hmmm

    The lunch buffet at Shalimar is slightly different every day.

  • Time to eat

    As I am getting ready to chow down, the WiFi detector blinks.

  • What does that shirt do

    The shirt will attract attention. This is the third Indian waiter to ask me what my shirt was doing.
    I got the feeling that they were concerned that the shirt might be attacking their network or something. When I told them what it was doing I got that "Crazy Americans," look.

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By Mark Kaelin

ThinkGeek is offering the WiFi Detector T-Shirt just in time for holiday shopping. If you have any tech geeks on your list, this shirt is almost a must buy. The WiFi Detector T-Shirt will find broadcasting WiFi signals and notify you by flashing indicator lights across your chest. Never be without a WiFi connection again. We took the shirt for a test drive recently to one of our favorite lunch destinations.

About Mark Kaelin

Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years. Most recently, he has been a regular contributor to BreakingModern.com, aNewDomain.net, and TechRepublic.

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