Wi-Fi kills bugs

AN AMERICAN company is using wi-fi technology to create a huge electronic mosquito net.

American Biophysics has been making a killing by building a magnet which emits a human smell to attract bloodsucking insects. When the bugs fly into the net, they're sucked in and suffocated.

Now the company has worked out a a way of using software to control a network of magnets--forming a kind of wide-scale fence through wireless 802.11b technology.

According to news.com, the technology is similar to those of networked PCs with a LAN creating an electronic self-diagnosing network of magnets all communicating with one another through the 802.11b wireless standard.

Servers in the middle of the network record and analyse data transmitted from the computerised magnets on air quality, humidity, wind direction and pollutants.

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