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Robot transforms sewer into information superhighway
THE INQ HAS often been accused of having its head in the gutter and today at CeBit was no exception as we stumbled across a company flogging its fibre optic sewer setup offerings.
Fibre Access By Sewage Tube (FAST) is a Swiss firm which boasts the ability to convert most standard sewage systems (man entry and no-man entry) into a super-fast information highway.
The system includes a specially-designed sewer robot made from bits of teenage mutant ninja turtles and stainless steel to hold conduits in place using adjustable clamps. Fibre optic cables run through the conduits which then deliver a load of digital sh*te to your home computer via the Internet.
FAST reckons its tech offers cities an environmentally friendly and cost efficient way of bringing the interdribble to people's homes, using existing infrastructure, which can be easily upgraded for the purpose.
Enabling the installation of a protective conduit network for fibre optic cables is apparently simply a matter of getting a CCTV robot to check whether your pipes aren't too clogged, a bout of cleaning using a high pressure jet machine and a touch of "rehabilitation work".
Not such a crappy idea if you think about, as long as no one takes a very large dump. µ
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Everyone knows that this already exists. You guys are way behind the curve.
http://www.google.com/tisp/
Just the place to route packets carrying blogosphere, usenet, Fox News and pron traffic.
Also include ABC, CBS, NBC, and all their cable adjuncts, especially
[P]MSNBC, the news pron channel (not to be confused with pron news.) Oh, and NPR and so-called "public" TV.
Hell, it's ALL crap!
Go from router to rotorouter. If you have tree roots busting through sewage pipes as often as they do in the area where I live, this would seem like a really bad idea.
It would be a shitty job to have to dig up and repair any faults.
Congratulations on falling for one of Google's april fool's jokes.
with the introduction of this missing first half S.H (Sewer Harvesting) Department I.T is now complete till the Judgment Day. Meet S.H.I.T.
Might work but you realise its just another nail in the coffin of humanity.
Come the Rise of the Robots® robotic annacondas will now emerge from the u-bend smelling of poo and scare the bejeezus out of us with reams of insidiously placed optic fibre cable.
In the meantime just wait till one of these buggers gets stuck halfway up the soil pipe!
Does this come into my house via the potty then? What a loonatic idea!
I saw this company introducing the concept back in 1994 in Regensburg with Alcatel, if they haven't managed to sell it by now I don't think much will come of it.
maybe this isnt just sending internet traffic. maybe they are using these tools to inspect your poo too. from your excretion its possible to know what food you ate, so they will know what shop you went to and therefore how far you travelled. from a marketing point of veiw they can sell the information to people who want to buy your shopping habits. big bro just got bigger.
Fibre through sewers - nothing new - the UK firm H2O were trialing that 2 years ago and are now actively going to roll it out.