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Underground e-mail: a network of wireless bicycles gives subway riders free wireless Internet access.

Publication: Wireless Business & Technology
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1170 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Underground e-mail: a network of wireless bicycles gives subway riders free wireless Internet access.(Wi-Fi)

Article Excerpt
Bicycles outfitted with off-the-shelf technology to act as wireless access points or hotspots create an innovative way to send e-mail from below street level.

Momentary panic, euphoria, and a technological breakthrough all took place within a New York lunch hour on December 11, as New School University's Parsons School of Design instructor Yury Gitman and his Design and Technology students successfully transmitted the first e-mail from the subway. The Parsons project, called "Wireless Bikes and Urbanites," was carried out in collaboration with the education division at Eyebeam, a nonprofit new media arts organization.

Using two MagicBikes--bikes outfitted with off-the-shelf technology to act as wireless access points or hotspots--the students sent the e-mail to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, copying New School University President Bob Kerrey and Parsons School of Design Dean Randy Swearer.

"All of the students worked hard on this project and I'm thrilled that it was a real success," said Gitman, an emerging-media artist who has made a name for himself by harnessing wireless technology and popular culture to...

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