Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
Landing an agreement to create a worldwide mobile broadband standard with the freed up 700MHz band isn’t the only good news going on in the spectrum world, as the FCC has also waived a previous regulation that would require winners of the D block segment to not wholesale more than 50-percent of its capacity. Now, the winner will be able to wholesale up to 100-percent of the capacity so long as it abides by the other guidelines surrounding D block, most notable of which is the provision that requires the victorious bidder to “build out a nationwide wireless network that is good enough to meet public safety specifications for coverage and redundancy.” The move is seen as one that will widen the range of potential bidders and encourage small business participation, and for consumers, it could offer up more competition in the mobile services marketplace. Sounds like [...]

Original post by Darren Murph

Filed under: Robots

If you count yourself as one of a legion of the “clothes clueless,” then this smart closet could be the end of your troubles. It sounds as if you’ll need a wardrobe full of RFID tagged clothes for it to work — although the specific technology isn’t clear — but once your clothes are wired sown up, your wardrobe will inform you when you “accidentally” choose the same clothes the second time you meet the same person, and will give you advice on the correct shoes to go with your outfit, among other hints. Of course, the inventors have overlooked an array of paradoxes here (if you’re organized enough to set this up, you’ve gotta have some common sense) but we like the wackiness of the idea anyway. If the future’s anything like this, we better be ready for a whole lot of patronizing machines.
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Original post by Conrad Quilty-Harper