Gizmodo 
Enter your username and password.
-
more about #antenna more comments → OMG! Ponies!: Rosa, We have ST:TNG tech already. Tap a little button and you can communicate with it. It's called a Bluetooth headset. That's right. The entir... more » tylerstyle: My puny Star Trek fantasy? Our world becoming one people, finally working together with no boundaries, no Poverty, no Money, no starving and laying th... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Hailing frequencies open... more » CraigJ: I just want to be able to tell my microwave, tea, Earl Grey, hot. more » farcedude: Green chicks is my guess. more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: But seriously. Since the FDA reported that 4 people have died from choking on life alert pendants, maybe we can make life alert mumu's, housecoats, o... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: This is just a guess, but does it involve messing with the gravity in your room like Melora did in that episode of Deep Space Nine? Or does it poss... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Aren't you a little small for a Wi-Fi Antenna? It's not the size of your WiFi antenna, it's the band"width". more » A Snake a Snake... OH it's a Snake!: It will be interesting to see how quickly this mini Wifi technology will start appearing in all kinds of household gadgets. You could control things l... more » yoshi: That is crazy, Mark. How the hell do they pack all those electronics in that tiny wafer? Amazing! more » Bloodboiler: People, these are planes operating in all 3 dimensions. Even if the leading plane somehow stopped in mid air, the trailing plane would just pass it fl... more » xb3ngx: put down the iphone. more » JohnLannon: wait. is that a real picture? more » Randy87: whoa, this is quite interesting... my dad is a pilot for 747's (though he flies cargo) and a couple weeks ago the electronics on his plane all died to... more » mauser: 1,000' separation is quite normal. They could have asked any airline/corporate pilot about this and received the same reply. [en.wikipedia.org] Reduce... more » -
#personalcommunicator
Fabric Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Makes Most of My Star Trek Fantasies Reality
My second biggest Star Trek fantasy? Being able to tap a badge to communicate. Silly, but not to a Finnish company who is improving on Star Trek design and my fantasies with flexible, fabric communicators toting built-in GPS to boot. More » -
#gadgetporn
A Glimpse at the Eye-Fi's Teeny Tiny Wi-Fi Antenna
One Flickr member ripped apart his broken Eye-Fi after being sent a replacement. No big surprises were found, but that gold bar on top? That's the integrated Wi-Fi antenna. Cool stuff, no? [Flickr via bbGadgets] -
#airplanes
747 Electronics Fail, Pilot Flies Blind Across the Pacific Piggy-Backing to Another Plane
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the 284 passengers on board Quantas Flight 12—a Boeing 747-400 flying from Los Angeles to Sydney—couldn't believe their eyes when they looked through their windows to see another Boeing from Air New Zealand flying just a few thousand feet from their aircraft. The explanation, as the commander announced, was simple: He was "flying blind" after their aircraft's weather radar broke three hours after take off. Fortunately, as Qantas explained, the Air New Zealand flight was able to relay the data their 747 needed all the way to the other side of the Pacific: More » -
#antenna
QuickerTek's TriBand Antennas Boost Apple Time Capsule Wireless Base Station
Apple's Time Capsule works fine as a wireless base station/router, since it is just an Airport Extreme with a hard drive thrown in, but what if you could make it even better? You know, with a MIMO TriBand antenna in order to reach every bathroom of your house. QuickerTek's TriBand antenna is just that, which allows you to pay $129 for a self-installation kit, $200 for an installation service, or $500 for a pre-installed version (slightly higher prices for the 1TB model). The cost is a bit steep, but since the Time Capsule doesn't come with an external antenna that you can easily swap out for a better one, this seems like your best option. [QuickerTek] -
