Wi-Fi on Weather Balloons?

Posted by admin on Feb 21, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I just read an article from the Wall Street Journal that discussed the potential for Google to utilize weather balloons with (essentially) cell-phone receivers attached to them so people in more remote locations could access high-speed internet.  Seriously… weather balloons?  You’d think with all the technological advances we have nowadays that there would be something a little more sophisticated than weather balloons.  However, I guess it’s right up there with a ship dropping its anchor and cutting whole countries off of the Internet.