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Misfit
03-13-2012, 10:31 AM
Homeless people turned into walking WiFi hotspots in 'charitable experiment' | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/homeless-people-turned-into-walking-wifi-hotspots-in-charitable-experiment/story-e6frfku0-1226298625577)
HOMELESS people in the US are being turned into walking Wi-Fi aerials as part of a "charitable experiment" by a New York ad agency.
Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH) handed out free MiFi gadgets to the peddlers - along with T-shirts bearing their names and the words "I'm a 4G hotspot'' - for its Homeless Hotspots project at the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts and tech festival in Austin, Texas
nomoney
03-13-2012, 05:13 PM
Homeless people turned into walking WiFi hotspots in 'charitable experiment' | News.com.au (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/homeless-people-turned-into-walking-wifi-hotspots-in-charitable-experiment/story-e6frfku0-1226298625577)
HOMELESS people in the US are being turned into walking Wi-Fi aerials as part of a "charitable experiment" by a New York ad agency.
Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH) handed out free MiFi gadgets to the peddlers - along with T-shirts bearing their names and the words "I'm a 4G hotspot'' - for its Homeless Hotspots project at the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts and tech festival in Austin, Texas
Great idea! Now they'll actually be useful!
vraiblonde
03-13-2012, 05:16 PM
Austin, Texas
That's the right place for it. Austin has more panhandlers than I've ever seen in my life. The downtown area is absolutely littered with them.
FromTexas
03-13-2012, 08:19 PM
None of them are going to pawn the gear for booze?
MrZ06
03-14-2012, 10:06 AM
what is going to stop the bums from just selling the mifis they are given for a quick 50 bucks.
Misfit
03-14-2012, 10:18 AM
what is going to stop the bums from just selling the mifis they are given for a quick 50 bucks.
Or....what is going to stop a wealthy sportsman from abducting them and start hunting them as a form of recreation, but instead of killing them the hunters have to keep up with the homeless to maintain their XBOX live connections!
MrZ06
03-14-2012, 01:15 PM
Or....what is going to stop a wealthy sportsman from abducting them and start hunting them as a form of recreation,
I'm sure they do that now. In vegas they have a shooting range were you can shoot at naked women running around with a paintball gun.
Misfit
03-14-2012, 01:22 PM
I'm sure they do that now. In vegas they have a shooting range were you can shoot at naked women running around with a paintball gun.
You can do that any given Friday night in Ridge.
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