Hawking's HWU8DD Hi-Gain USB Wireless-G Dish Adapter

One of the curses of living in the expansive Engadget mansion, with its thick stone walls and cloud of wireless signals floating through the air, is the difficulty we sometimes have in picking up a WiFi signal out by the hot tub.
We've tried other signal boosting/capturing methods before, with varying success, but we've got high hopes for the uber-geeky-looking HWU8DD Hi-Gain USB Wireless-G Dish Adapter from Hawking Technology, because something this conspicuous just has to work well. As its name indicates (or maybe not), the HWU8DD hooks up to your laptop or desktop via USB and focuses its data-sucking powers directly towards your access point. Hawking claims that this device
(which would go great in this guy's house), with its new 8dBi directional dish antenna, "extends wireless connection distances by up to 300%" — well we're gonna take this bad boy for a test drive, and if you find us blogging from the jacuzzi surrounded by bottles of Cristal and pics of gadgets with their cases removed, you'll know that this product lives up to its claims.

[Via Wi-Fi Net News]