Wireless Web Gets a Set of Wheels

According to BBC News Online, a New York City artist has created a wireless (wi-fi) Internet using his bicycle. "The wireless bike, or Magicbike as [Yury] Gitman prefers to call it, is not just a trendy alternative to the wi-fi cafe or office." Ideally, it could bring the internet to areas that would otherwise have no way to connect to the Internet. "A grassroots bottom-up wireless infrastructure can be formed and pedalled to any place accessible by bicycle," said Mr. Gitman.

Gitman has wi-fi antennas mounted on the bike's frame which feed into a laptop hidden in the saddle-bag. "The connection is received either from the cellular network or from nearby hotspots. Mr. Gitman admits that borrowing bandwidth from nearby open networks is something of a legal grey area."

According to the BBC, many people are interested in his idea and he "receives hundreds of e-mails to his Magicbike website from people interested in setting up similar ideas."

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