The most unusual place that has Wi-Fi

In our time, highly tech wireless coverage may even be in the woods, of course, talking about North America and Western Europe. However, in some cities band Wi-Fi may be the most unusual places.

So, in the American town of Paducah, in Kentucky, at the city cemetery of Oak Grove has a wireless internet coverage. It is true, why in such a place to set hot spots - a mystery.

It turns out that on the highest mountain of the world is Wi-Fi. The Swedish telephone company has decided to equip a number of transmitters wireless coverage. Thus, at an altitude of 5200 meters above sea level, anyone can go to the network.

Yet scientific progress and reached the North Pole, in whose territory is about 7 years old has its own wireless network. Note that the weight of sky-high now implemented projects to extend Wi-Fi zones in the deserts of several continents, as well as on board future spacecraft that will be used exclusively for tourism.

HTC acknowledged hardware problems with Wi-Fi in some One X

Last week, HTC said it is studying the problem of so-called "dead hand" of the smartphone One X. Thus, the Taiwanese manufacturer has responded to complaints from owners of the device, the work of disgruntled unstable Wi-Fi. The HTC have confirmed the problem and acknowledged that it is the nature of the hardware.

According to users, Wi-Fi signal is enhanced if the "right" to take the unit and squeeze it a little bit. The company identified the cause of the failure and said the site AndroidCentral, which strengthened the case in the field connect the antenna Wi-Fi. Company representatives stressed that the production process will be immediately made ​​the changes necessary to solve the problem.

The HTC stressed that with the malfunctions encountered a number of European users. However, even the approximate number of problematic HTC One X is unknown.

Wi-Fi-mouse with infrared sensor

Sanwa Supply Company added to its range of new wireless mouse MA-NANOIR13, which is different infrared optical sensor. Note the IR sensors are different from traditional sensor with a beam of visible lower power consumption, extending battery life.

Mouse MA-NANOIR13 characterized by a maximum resolution of 3000 dots per inch, which can be reduced to a value of 1500 or 1000 dpi. The novelty consists of three main buttons, two side buttons and scroll wheel.

The device has dimensions of 55 x 107 x 36 mm and weight 70 grams (without batteries). Two size AA batteries provide up to 15 months of battery life. There are three color options - black, silver and red. Price is a mouse close to $ 45 (for the Japanese market).

Forget the Wi-Fi, connect through bulbs

Do you use wireless internet anywhere in the store, stealing Wi-Fi from a neighbor, or share a channel with some other members of the conference, you may have often frustrated because of the slow speed when the network is involved in more than one person. As soon as more and more people have access to a wireless network, it becomes harder and harder to catch quite a workable signal.

However, radio waves are just one part of the spectrum, which can give you a signal. What if the Internet connection, we will use other waves?

A German physicist named Harald Haas came up with a solution that he calls "the data through the light" - fiber optic reception by sending data through the LED lamp, the intensity of the emitted light are faster than the human eye can detect. The same principle underlies the remote control, but in this case, the technology is much more powerful.

Haas said that his invention, which he calls the D-Light, can provide a data rate of more than 10 megabits per second, faster than your normal internet connection speed. In the future, as it seems, all laptops, smartphones and planshetniki will be connected to the Internet through the room lighting.

Based on this technology, you can come up with very different use of it from public access to the Internet for street lighting to automatically guided vehicles that communicate with the headlights. Also, the data coming through the visible spectrum, may alleviate concerns that the electromagnetic waves of Wi-Fi connection adversely affect your health.

Intel patents new way to connect Wi-Fi devices

Wishing to further simplify the lives of users who actively use the wireless network, Intel has patented a new way to connect Wi-Fi-device to the router without entering a password and a suitable mainly for home use. However, there is a clause - plug the device and the router - should have audiovozmozhnostyami.

Proposal is as follows: for the first time connected to the wireless network device should generate some kind of unique - within the network - a sequence of sounds that is recognized by the router, and a new device is stored in its database as legitimate. Later the user can simply repeat the same procedure without having to enter passwords or any PIN-codes. The authors are fully aware of the patent, that it is not about laptops or smart phones, which are capable to connect to the network as many times, having to authenticate only once: it is primarily about connecting to a wireless network television, wireless speakers, and (or) headphones When the router must enter 8-digit PIN-code of the device recorded somewhere on his back.

Described in this patent US 2011/0277023 pozitsiniruetsya technology as potential replacement protocol WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup), which allows the user to simply connect to wireless networks by entering a short PIN-codes. At the same time, most recently, WPS has been found dangerous vulnerability allows an attacker in a reasonable time to access the network using "brute force".