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WiFi Signals Caught on Camera
- noinput 14y agoWhat a simply beautiful idea!
- nathannecro 14y agoThe full (and HD version) of the video can be found here: http://vimeo.com/20412632 http://vimeo.com/20412632
- jerrya 14y agoSupposedly at one point decades ago PARC had a wire in the ceiling that rotated and whose rotational speed was dependent on the amount of packets traveling in the internet cable strung above it. (apocryphal?) (what is the truth of this?) (is it still there?) I believe Facebook is supposed to have a restroom in which a white noise privacy background is generated from global friending/unfriending activity.
- pcl 14y agoI've heard that story before, except that when I heard it, the network was in one of the MIT Rad Lab buildings.
- mceachen 14y agoI understand that Twitter's reception desk had birdsong that played when people tweeted, but it became cacophonous at high tweets-per-second.
- x5315 14y agoI'm pretty sure the speakers were still there when we left.
- buza 14y agoNatalie Jeremijenko made the one at PARC in 1995 as an artist in residence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Jeremijenko#Live_Wire_.28Dangling_String.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Jeremijenko#Live_Wire_....
- teraflop 14y agoIt was called the "Dangling String": http://books.google.com/books?id=9P5uwNpP1JAC&pg=PA83&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gMu9UJD-LIXo2gXYj4FA&ved=0CEsQ6AEwCQ http://books.google.com/books?id=9P5uwNpP1JAC&pg=PA83...
- pronoiac 14y agoI love the possibilities here. I want to see rows traced out! Make something that looks like a Joy Division album cover. Use a bullet-time array of cameras to make a video. Make an augmented reality layer so you can see it as you wander the area.
- chime 14y agoInstead of vertical, I'd love to be able to see this horizontally overlaid on a map so I could find the weak spots in my house and work.
- aw3c2 14y agoYou can gather data with G-Mon on Android. Iirc it "only" gives you an estimated location and strength of each wifi radio though. Still fun to map.
- Selfcommit 14y agoAnyone else remember this being posted this time last year?
- Zaheer 14y agoYes, I actually saw it a while back as well. Still cool though!
- osakanyan 14y agoVery old article.
- hayksaakian 14y agoThis could server as a mode of expression and art.
- nos4A2 14y agoTyping "server" instead of "serve" happens to me extremely frequently too (it happened while typing this too), occupational hazard I guess :)
- rwbt 14y agoShouldn't the title be "WiFi strength visualized" instead of invisible signals caught on Camera? Its a cool visualization nonetheless, but the title is a little misleading.
- victoro 14y agoThe title of the original article is "Invisible WiFi Signals Caught on Camera." I thought "Invisible" was too Ripley's-Believe-It-Or-Not-sounding so I removed it while trying to keep as much of the original title as possible intact. Probably a better title would have been "WiFi Signal Strength Caught on Camera" or the one you proposed, but, whats done is done.
- javert 14y agoI think the title of the original was being criticized (righly), not the title you chose for the HN post.
- goggles99 14y agoHow about "Cancer risk of your children visualized" ???
- sigkill 14y agoI second your motion. Initially I thought that they found a new material that is sensitive to 2.4GHz electromagnetic waves. This train of thought was inspired by the ability of cameras today to capture infrared light. [The old point remote at camera trick].
- ohwp 14y agoNot as cool as the Magnetic Movie: http://vimeo.com/1166968 http://vimeo.com/1166968
- jrnkntl 14y agodiscussion from 644 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270878 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2270878
- buro9 14y agohttp://yourban.no/2011/02/22/immaterials-light-painting-wifi/ http://yourban.no/2011/02/22/immaterials-light-painting-wifi...
- bitteralmond 14y agoThough this is really cool in itself, this has a horribly sensational and misleading title.
- 89a 14y agoTerrible idea, don't give those morons who think wifi is harmful any more ammunition
- yodakohl 14y agoWouldn't it be easier to assign signal strength to certain GPS-dots and visualize the gathered data on the computer?
- aw3c2 14y agoYes, but would be science. The submission is art.
- xradionut 14y agoThe artist in me wants to smile, but the RF guy inside says, "Hey, they recreated the radio signal coverage map with fewer dimensions and less useful information!" (chuckle...)
- bolt25 14y agoCan you please stop posting news of the previous years?
- taylorbuley 14y agoDarn it, I was working on this too! I guess my project will just have to be that much more original now.