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15 Feb ’12
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what the heck is outernet?
Lantern is an anonymous portable library that constantly receives free data from space.
Like the water we drink or the air we breathe, the information we consume feeds the very essence of what it means to be human. Lantern establishes a new baseline of human knowledge. We are not fixing the world for people, we are giving them the information they need to fix it themselves.
Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space. Lantern turns the signal into digital files, like webpages, news articles, ebooks, videos, and music. Lantern can receive and store any type of digital file on its internal drive. To view the content stored in Lantern, turn on the Wi-Fi hotspot and connect to Lantern with any Wi-Fi enabled device. All you need is a browser.
Oh, and Outernet is free to use, always.
When purchasing Lantern through this campaign, you are both advancing the collective potential of our species and receiving a cutting-edge piece of technology.
What will people read about when their governments can no longer censor information?
What problems will we solve when every human can educate themselves?
What inventions will we create when knowledge is universally available?
Buy a Lantern, support Outernet, and help us find the answers. This campaign is to fund the creation of Lantern and a 2 MB/day broadcast on a new frequency that can be received without a dish. The more money we raise, the more we can do - including launching our own satellites into orbit. See our funding timeline below for more details.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-data-from-space-forever
18 Feb ’12
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this is cool as hell. i might ask for this for christmas. could end up being an $89 bookshelf ornament.
3 Nov ’12
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agreed, seems there is definitely an element of risk/reward with the product. Would like to demo before paying for it. If it is as advertised I thing it would be well worth the full retail price.
15 Feb ’12
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yeah, but what's it do?
24 Mar ’13
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So, it's already actively up and running? Or are they still trying to get their first satellite or what? Does it replace services like my Hughesnet or Wild Blue??? I'm not a tech person but this thing sounds too good to be true...
15 Feb ’12
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Dunno. Been researching it more. Seems at this time you can't pick what gets streamed to you
18 Feb ’12
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So here's what I can glean from some poking around the Google.
They are already streaming 2MB of outernet content a day. Theres fixed content like maps, weather, and news. Then there's sponsored content, obviously chosen by the sponsor. Last, there's voted content. You submit URLs and other users vote whether to add it to the next burst of content.
Think of it more like a library than the internet. You download the whole library, you can peruse what's there, or you can request other content. Plan is to upgrade the amount of content to 100MB. After you recieve the latest burst of content, the lantern acts as a wifi hotspot for wifi device with an html browser
You don't have to buy the Lantern, you can buy an SD card with the software and build your own antenna, the instructions are on the website. What might be a cool use for this is to build something with a decent amount of storage, store music, movies, etc for travel, and then be able to update things like weather, traffic reports, news, etc. I would have loved to have this when I was backpacking. The side panels of the lantern are solar cells which would be ideal for remote outdoor use.
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