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

By Mark W. Kaelin November 6, 2007, 3:27 AM PST

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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.

An ordinary T-Shirt

The detector

Battery pack pocket

Three AAA batteries required

Detector Removed

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

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.

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 W. Kaelin

Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the information technology industry, software, hardware, gaming, finance, accounting, and technology geekdom for more than 30 years.

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