Wifi Dowsing Rod
Mike Thompson (British, born 1981)
2007
Wood and electronics
approx. 18 7/8
x 6 1/8 x 5/8" (48 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm)
The Wifi Dowsing Rod provides comfort
to people who may be overwhelmed
by current technologies. Mike Thompson
has adapted the familiar form of a divining
rod—believed in the past to be able to
locate underground sources of water—
into a tool that seeks out and indicates
the strength of the unseen wireless
signals that are all around us. Thus
a tool of the past is evoked in fulfilling
the needs of the present.
Category: Objects
Tags: Critical Design / Networks / Interfaces / Liminal Spaces
