Via Charles Mudede at Seattle’s Stranger, the Verge says there’s an upgrade in the works for every paranoid conspiracist’s tinfoil hat:
French researchers have developed wallpaper that’s designed to trap Wi-Fi signals, without interfering with radio or cellphone signals. It uses conductive ink containing silver crystals to to block a Wi-Fi router’s operating frequencies: your router should work as expected, but the signal won’t travel beyond the wallpaper’s boundaries. While currently only a prototype, researchers at the Grenoble Institute of Technology hope to make the wallpaper commercially available early next year.
Of course, once they figure out that ‘Grenoble’ is not the place where Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor cavorted, those Heartland Americans(tm) might reject it. But perhaps the Romneybot 2012 could work some of its Vietnam-era missionary contacts and procure an early-adopter supply to help avoid embarrassing episodes of signal glitches like this one:
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