power to the playa: wireless extension cords

phil · Post by **phil** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 8:53 pm

/. is reporting wireless extension cords, so you can get power to the playa:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/0 ... 2&from=rss

(No foolin'!)

spectabillis · Post by **spectabillis** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:07 pm

wrong use.

aiming it at certain things... like sucky uberwatt sound systems and noisy gen's would be the utility of my choice.

Kinetic IV · Post by **Kinetic IV** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 9:08 pm

Damn Phil, can't you keep a secret? In the Afterburn JRS that ActionGrl sent out she failed to mention that the ORG has heard all the complaints about the lack of power beyond the center camp grid and they decided to do something about it!

The Wireless Extension Cord is seen here:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/wec.shtml

Base units will be mounted on multiple rings above center camp and used to power any theme camp within 300 ft of the receiver. Taking a cue from WiFi repeaters there will be many other repeaters put up to extend the range. This effectively takes care of the grid extension. No digging up the playa to run cables, and in many cases existing theme camp infrastructure will be used for mounting points.

Look for ActionGrl to announce this in next week's JRS.

By the way, Happy Internet Jackass Day!!!!

phil · Post by **phil** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:14 pm

spectabillis wrote:wrong use.

aiming it at certain things... like sucky uberwatt sound systems and noisy gen's would be the utility of my choice.

Actually, my preference is this:

Fend those sucky suckers off while you shred their speakers.