The Wired article on a wireless Dartmouth College has me thinking...it's only a dozen line of sight miles between here and Dartmouth and we have the hill. Maybe I can pull a Cringely and rig up a pringles can to tap the network?? The article highlights a few of the interesting inventions stemming from a pervasive wireless network:

• One of Professor Kotz's students has written some code that calculates how far away a networked PDA user is from her next appointment and adjusts the PDA's reminder alarm schedule accordingly.
• Zach Berke won Dartmouth's most recent Kemeny prize, an annual award for computing innovation, for his program that uses Wi-Fi base stations to surreptitiously find any laptop on campus.
• "Up here, cell phones suck," says Noblet. "So three students and I are working on a voice version of BlitzMail for PDAs and iPAQs that uses live two-way voice-over-IP chat."

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