Fm transmitters, socializing in an offline world
Written on 31st July 2008
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Joop Dorresteijn, East Asia correspondent
This map represents how the Internet assets are distributed across the world; there is a lack of internet accessibility in big parts of South America, Australia and especially Africa. Without the web it’s hard to get online information, and social networking is even harder to do. Or is it? Juan Esteban Rios Delgado created a way for socializing with your network without the use of the Internet.
The humanitarian designer just graduated at the design academy in the Netherlands, and made a communication tool based on a FM transmitter. The goal is to create communities like Myspace and Facebook available to everyone. The transmitters are cheap, portable and mechanically powered.
The devices allow people to talk, write and podcast with others that have a device. Everybody joins the broadcast channel. Rios said: “The transmitter is a tool that brings people together. While new technology brings us further from those who can’t get online, makes the “Sharing culture, sharing media” alternative distribution for the people that are online and offline” -through Bright.nl
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