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Networking

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

By Mark Kaelin

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.

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

WiFi Detector T-Shirt

WiFi Detector T-Shirt

The packaging is pretty un-extraordinary.

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

An ordinary T-Shirt

An ordinary T-Shirt

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

The detector

The detector

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

Battery pack pocket

Battery pack pocket

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

Three AAA batteries required

Three AAA batteries required

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

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

Detector Removed

Detector Removed

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

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

Shirt connector

Shirt connector

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

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

We have WiFi

We have WiFi

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

Strong signal

Strong signal

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

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

Shalimar

Shalimar

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

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

Confirmed

Confirmed

Yep! There is a strong WiFi signal here.

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

Shalimar's WiFi statement

Shalimar's WiFi statement

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

Buffet here I come

Buffet here I come

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

Hmmm

Hmmm

The lunch buffet at Shalimar is slightly different every day.

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

Time to eat

Time to eat

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

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

What does that shirt do

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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