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Instead of taking out phone booths (there's a line of old telephone boxes lying on their sides in Kingston, Surrey), repurpose them: turn them into broadband booths where you can plug in a laptop or PDA and collect email, make a VOIP call, or do a quick Web lookup and pay with a credit or smart card.
wg
that row of old phone boxes is a work of art - really! its a public sculpture.
http://www.contempa...ndhem-Collector.htm
[po, Nov 24 2005]
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Now we have Wi-Fi, this idea is dedundant. It's much nicer to sit in a coffee shop with your laptop than to stand in a booth. |
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Payphones seem to be mutating into
internet devices so the core of your idea
seems to be happening already. You can't
plug in your laptop, but that doesn't sound
too comfy in somthing the size of a
phonebooth anyway. |
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It will be decades before Wi-fi is everywhere we could want it; but the phone booths are there now, with wires already going to them. Plus, I hate wasting things. |
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another look at the row of phone boxes, dear? |
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"plug in" ?! What Minimal said - keep the phone booths, but give them Wifi. |
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P.S. Welcome to the Halfbakery!
P.P.S. You don't really need to add the "wg" every time you say something - everything's tagged with your account name already. |
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