A decent size solar panel could probably run a laptop too. The wifi node doesn't have to provide a connection to the internet either. I wouldn't be half surprised to see wifi used as a sort of presence IM/file transfer or even setup like an old school bbs eventually. Nintendo already has something of the IM idea in their DS handheld with pictochat.
BBS wouldn't be all that hard to do.. slap a portal page together, phpbb, maybe ftp and a hdd, solar panel, battery and find some public-type place you can get someone to let you set it up OR somewhere you can hide it.
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nullsmack @ Dec 19th 2005 2:14AM
A decent size solar panel could probably run a laptop too. The wifi node doesn't have to provide a connection to the internet either. I wouldn't be half surprised to see wifi used as a sort of presence IM/file transfer or even setup like an old school bbs eventually. Nintendo already has something of the IM idea in their DS handheld with pictochat.
BBS wouldn't be all that hard to do.. slap a portal page together, phpbb, maybe ftp and a hdd, solar panel, battery and find some public-type place you can get someone to let you set it up OR somewhere you can hide it.