The WiFi.Bedouin

It's couched in all sorts of rhetoric about "challenging conventional assumptions about WiFi and suggesting new architectures for digital networks" and how this is an "an apparatus that forces one to reconsider and question notions of virtuality, materiality, displacement, proximity and community," but all the WiFi.Bedouin really is is a backpack with a wireless access point and a battery pack in it. The idea is to create a little self-contained local area network anywhere, so the access point isn't itself connected to the Internet and all you get is the ability to hook up to whatever other computers or handhelds are nearby and/or visit spoofed versions of web sites you might try to search for. I think we're already pretty good at not
being able to connect to the Internet from everywhere, and lots of pseudo-theoretical posturing can't hide the fact that this isn't all that interesting.

[Via SmartMobs]