Our cities are crisscrossed with wireless local area networks. This data saturation is a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet completely invisible to us. What if we had an additional sense that made us attuned to it?
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Image: Yourban Project
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Streaming signals from wireless networks to a pair of hearing aids makes it possible to hear the changing landscapes of data that surround us. Other designers are conducting similar experiments with light.