Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/08/wifi_tshirt_arrives_in_uk/
Remember the Wi-Fi detector T-shirt (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/08/wifi_shirt/) that turned up the States back in October 2007? Well, signal-strength specifying garment has arrived in the UK sporting an alternative antenna design.
The Wi-Fi T-shirt
In place of the base-station icon of old, the new version sports a stylised laptop - white MacBook, do you reckon? - with a signal strength logo that has colour-changing bars to indicate how close you are to the nearest 2.4GHz hotspot.
Tucked away in the shirt's cotton lining is what UK-exclusive supplier Firebox.com calls "a small battery pack" that's ready to take a pair of AAA powercells. No, they're not included.
All this means you have to take good care of the thing when you're washing it. You geeky types do wash your t-shirts, don't you? Unplug the battery pack and give the garment a hand-washing, the supplier recommends. Don't iron, dry clean, wring out or tumble dry.
Firebox has the shirt down as coming in to stock on 19 February, but it'll happily take pre-orders now (http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=2058&src_t=wnp). The t-shirt costs £19.95, and is available in Medium, Large and Extra Large sizes.
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