Wireless Access on Planes?

You’re sitting on the plane 2 hours into a gruelling 18 hour flight to Singapore. With a jaded sigh you turn wearily towards the couple sitting next to you, hoping to relieve the boredom by starting a little conversation with your fellow passengers. Earlier they had seemed friendly enough, but now only a few complimentary G and Ts later, they’re […]

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The Year of Wireless Mobility

A while ago, in an article published by Lockergnome, we stated that 2005 would be the year of the laptop. We also reported that laptop computers had slam-dunked TV sales. Now we hear that notebooks have outsold desktop computers in the United States, for the first time in a calendar month. A report compiled by statistics firm, current analysis, revealed […]

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Viva la Laptop – Paris Commuters enjoy a Wireless Paradise

One of the Biggest Brothers has finally arrived, and this time, he’s here to help us communicate — at least in Paris’ La Defense station, which services the transportation needs of 480,000 passengers a day. The RATP, the agency that operates Paris’ transportation systems, has indeed gone wireless, giving both employees and commuters real-time information, such as train schedules, timetables, […]

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Wireless Power Transmission With WiTricity

Whenever a person in a cartoon has an idea then, more often than not, a disembodied light bulb appears above their inspired head. I always wondered where does the power come to light that bulb? Well it would seem the answer comes from the boys at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as they have successfully powered a 60 Watt bulb […]

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Wireless in the Classroom: Part 2,376

Laptops and teaching value is a fav topic at Laptopical, in large part because it is fast becoming a real issue in the educational world. Many teachers are out there improvising and innovating with notebooks on university campuses and in high school hallways. But many more teachers are terrified of wireless laptops. We came across an interesting discourse on this […]

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