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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Mind-Blowing Tech: Poo-Funded Wi-Fi, 'Perfect Strangers' Game and More [Watch (HLS stream): Mind-Blowing Tech: Poo-Funded Wi-Fi, 'Perfect Strangers' Game and More](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/e3EaL7Is.m3u8) (4:31)  _Published 2012-05-04. Important developments concerning dorm room automation, '80s sitcoms turned video games and poo-funded Wi-Fi projects._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:24 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Everything With Wi-Fi Has a Newly Discovered Security Flaw. Here's How to Protect Yourself](/video/sm0jaJQf/) ### Everything With Wi-Fi Has a Newly Discovered Security Flaw. 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It's not from drinking the toilet water, how would I get sick from that? Someone was using the drinking fountain and I didn't want to wait, so What I, what am I supposed to do? That's not why I got sick there. Everyone is sick there. [ SOUND ] That's good. Night time. Why does it say night time? It was orange. Orange means day. Why they put orange in the night time bottle? We gotta go. You've got about 15 minutes. [ MUSIC ] A college freshman at Berkeley has automated just about every aspect of his dorm room. Everything is either motion activated, voice activated or controlled with the tablet. Even it has different settings for different situation, there is sleep modes when you want all the lights off, there is homework mode that just turns on the desk lamp, there is romantic mode which is involves a disco ball and a certain Elton John song. And then, there's the big red emergency party button, which, yeah. Yeah. That reminds me of my emergency party button, but what, I can't remember what it [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ SOUND ] Next, next thing. Just go to the. Go to the next. Do you remember the New Year's party we had in 2005, where we hired the clown to surprise everyone and pop out of the closet? Remember how we cancelled the party because of the snowstorm? Did you ever see him go home? Just go to the next segment. [ MUSIC ] Someone has finally, finally created a video game based on the 80's sitcom Perfect Strangers. Perfect Strangers, perfect sitcom. Join along with me as we say, thank you, Jason Oda. You control Balki as he goes left and right, up and down collecting stars, running along to the theme song of Perfect Strangers. Which again, one of the greatest theme songs, for one of the greatest sitcoms in the history of American television. We can't, play the, song cause of the law, cause of the legal stuff. This, this stupid country. Standing tall. No come on. And last but certainly not least, the good people have Mexico City, now have poo funded Wi- Fi. Poo funded Wi- Fi. Dog poo, Wi- Fi. The more dog poo. > Poo, the more wifi you get. It's all part of a publicity stunt by web portal, Terra, which in ten parks around the city has set up things that look like garbage cans connected to digitally metered scales. The more poo that goes in the bins, the more time gets added to the free wifi in the park. Finally, a way for dogs to give back. I mean they really contribute nothing, aside from joy. But, joy, joy doesn't buy wifi. In fact I have 1 / 2 a mind to just stock pile poo in case this rolls out here. Get some wifi, gonna get some wifi? Can we make some white light? That's no good. We can, maybe we can get some dialup for that. Check out all those insanely important, mind blowing tech news stories and more on Techland. 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