Homeless people turned into walking WiFi hotspots

[Misfit]

Homeless people turned into walking WiFi hotspots in 'charitable experiment' | News.com.au

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

 

[Dev]

Genius

 

[nomoney]

Homeless people turned into walking WiFi hotspots in 'charitable experiment' | News.com.au

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]

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]

None of them are going to pawn the gear for booze?

 

[MrZ06]

what is going to stop the bums from just selling the mifis they are given for a quick 50 bucks.

 

[Misfit]

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]

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]

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.