Anti-WiFi Wallpaper Available Next Year 167
hypnosec writes with good news for folks who want to live in a Faraday cage. From the article: "A new type of wallpaper, which has been developed by scientists from the Institut Polytechnique Grenoble INP and the Centre Technique du Papier, will go on sale in 2013 after a Finnish firm Ahlstrom acquired the license. What looks like a bog-standard wallpaper roll actually contains silver particles that allows it to filter out up to three different frequencies simultaneously. It is not the first time that such a technology has surfaced. Back in 2004, BAE Systems was tasked by Ofcom to come up with a similar solution based on what was then called a stealth wallpaper. It used copper instead of silver and blocked Wi-Fi signals while letting GSM, 4G and emergency calls through. Back then, though, a square meter cost £500, whereas the Wi-Fi wallpaper devised by the French researchers should be priced reasonably, with costs matching those of a 'classic,' mid-range wallpaper according to M. Lemaître-Auger, from Grenoble INP."
Re:it probably could be done also with paint (Score:4, Funny)
Americans do not use wallpaper much.
But if they would just use tin foil instead of silver (really, how bourgeois) it would be a major hit.
At least here on Slashdot. Maybe ThinkGeek could sell it.
Re:Mistranslation in summary (Score:0, Funny)
Fuck you, I'm an American goddammit. Every foreign word that vaguely resembles an English word translates to that English word. You goddamn foreigners just use your own damn words wrong.
Re:could this decrease interference in high-rises? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:could this decrease interference in high-rises? (Score:5, Funny)
Warning to PC and smart phone users!!! (Score:5, Funny)
I used this wallpaper on my desktop, and now my wifi no longer works.
Took me a while to figure it out, but I've since switched back to my old wallpaper, and everything is fine now.