ThinkGeek has done it again. They have taken something normal (a T-shirt) and made it outrageously nerdy (a Wi-Fi detector).

Here it is, the ThinkGeek Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt. Yep, it really works. Those little bars are on an animated decal you can remove to wash the shirt. Because Wi-Fi bars are not washable. Betcha didn't know that.


When I think of all the times I have wandered New York City with my laptop wondering where there is a place I can check to see if Han Solo has e-mailed me yet, when I remember sitting on that freezing bench outside of the fancy east side residence Sutton Place, when I think of peering at peeling Wi-Fi stickers in the windows of delis and diners, when I think of all the times I've desperately clicked on networks called "Tina's Angst Zone" and "Boyz Gone Wyld" in vain. . .how I wish I'd had this shirt.

I don't feel particularly inclined to walk around like a beacon of computer signal activity, but I would like to hire an intern to stand near me wearing this at all times. That would be handy. I can't offer pay, but I'll take you to prom. Okay?

P.S. Han Solo never writes. Scoundrel.