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How to build an Emergency Internet Relief Kit
If you've ever wondered what you'd take into a disaster zone to help bring back network connectivity, then Make's Internet Relief Kit is just the ticket. Just to make it clear, we're not talking about a relief kit for first-world dilemmas like "Twitter is Down" (if you're wondering, that kit typically contains tequila, triple sec, with lemon or lime juice) - oh no - we're talking about relief kits for massive humanitarian disasters, the sort that destroy telephone and data infrastructure such as hurricanes or floods.
The package in question here is (unsurprisingly) a satellite-based system that, when connected to a laptop, allows emergency responders to use email, voice chat, video calling and the Internet on disaster sites.
As satellite systems go it's highly portable (fitting into a backpack) and costs around $3,500 - though you'll want to activate that satellite subscription before the world as we know it ends....
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I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Drew Green said 3:03PM on 9-19-2009
Oh hell yea! Sign me up for 5!
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danhawk911 said 11:05PM on 9-19-2009
hell if there's no bandwidth cap this would be great for my job.
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