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Visible and Audible WLAN

Roger DitterSeptember 22, 2015

Our cities are crisscrossed with wireless local area networks. This data saturation is a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet completely invisible to us. What if we had an additional sense that made us attuned to it?

Visible WLAN by Yourban Project
Image: Yourban Project

Streaming signals from wireless networks to a pair of hearing aids makes it possible to hear the changing landscapes of data that surround us. Other designers are conducting similar experiments with light.

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