# Homeless + MyFi = cool idea or something really awful? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 13, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179 "2012-03-13T08:01:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/1 "2012-03-13T08:01:39Z")
“Hey you, smelly guy, here’s $2. Now stand here so I can stream this youtube clip on my $800 tablet”. [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/13/homeless-people-turned-into-walking-wifi-hotspots-in-charitable-experiment/](http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/13/homeless-people-turned-into-walking-wifi-hotspots-in-charitable-experiment/) > Homeless people are being turned into walking Wi-Fi aerials as part of a “charitable experiment” by a New York ad agency. > Bartle, Bogle and Hegarty (BBH) handed out free Novatel Wireless MiFi gadgets to the peddlers – along with T-shirts bearing their names and the words "I’m a 4G hotspot’’ – for its Homeless Hotspots project at the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts and tech festival in Austin, Texas. I’m all for giving homeless job opportunities but something seems inherently wrong with this. Maybe it’s the fact that you’re labeling a person a 4g hotspot? ---
**Author:** ![LZ1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/2 "2012-03-13T08:11:54Z")
Wait till they figure out those hotspots cause cancer ---
**Author:** ![Paulo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/paulo/32/7328_2.png) [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/3 "2012-03-13T08:23:31Z")
Now that’s how you make lemonade! ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/4 "2012-03-13T08:32:01Z")
Free T-shirt…count me in. ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/5 "2012-03-13T08:41:17Z")
I’m waiting for somebody to throw the shirt on and wander around until somebody comes up with a laptop / ipad and proceeds to get punched in the face and have it stolen. ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/6 "2012-03-13T10:29:07Z")
I don’t want to be withing wireless distance of any homeless people. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/homeless-myfi-cool-idea-or-something-really-awful/221179/7 "2012-03-13T10:42:25Z")
hahaha… ^ such a Texas answer. I want to move to Texas.