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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.

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.

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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.