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Plasma TV These days, everything gets plugged into the TV--starting with the VCR, the DVD player and the cable box. Samsung's 50-in. wi-fi plasma TV is cable free (except for power) and ready for wall mounting. Accessories get plugged into a wireless transmitter that you can hide anywhere...
Pocket PC Phone Get two great wireless options in one device. HP's iPaq h6315 lets you hop on a wi-fi network from your home, office or a hot spot like Starbucks for a speedy connection. But if you're out of wi-fi range, stay online via T-Mobile's slower cellular data service...
NetDisk Drive Pack rats, have we got a drive for you! With 120 GB of storage space--enough for more than 100 hours of video--Ximeta's megadrive lets a family with three or four computers share just about everything. And it comes with a wireless router built in, so you can cut free with a laptop...
...there's a lot more going on here than meets the eye. Spokane is actually a radical experiment in urban wireless technology, a live-in laboratory where city-employed nerds are crash-testing the wireless technotopia of the future. All of downtown Spokane, including the park that I was sitting in, is a massive wi-fi hot spot, a whole neighborhood enveloped in an invisible field of high-volume Internet access that covers 100 city blocks. The same way some libraries and coffeehouses offer wireless Internet access, all of downtown Spokane is a wireless surfing zone...
...California. And bigger players are moving in all the time. Cook County, Ill., is planning a massive 940-sq.-mi. cloud that would light up all of Chicago. Philadelphia announced a humongous hot zone of its own in September. Los Angeles and New York City are soliciting bids from wireless contractors. This stuff is just too cheap and too useful not to have. It doesn't even stop at the city limits. Out in the sticks, where there are no skyscrapers to get in the way of a wi-fi signal, wireless is even bigger. There's a hot spot...