The Wonderful Wi-Fi of Disney

Check out the Top 11 reasons Disney's new mobile service will outsell competitors. Also, the MugMouse and Open-Source Beer?

August 12, 2005

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11) Mouse ears make excellent antennas

10) Cinderella series devices morph into pumpkins if bill isn't paid by midnight

9) There's no chance of Michael Eisner running the company

8) Fantasyland is the perfect spot for any customer-service organization

7) The more you clap, the brighter the display screen gets6) Forgotten voicemail passwords can be retrieved by wishing upon a star

5) Unwanted callers can be sent to Neverland

4) Pluto acts as "sniffer" to locate connectivity problems

3) Each device comes with a fairy who can restore lost signals

2) You can listen to "It's a Small World" while you're on hold for service1) Mobile services have always been Mickey Mouse anyway

Special thanks to Paul Black, Bill Burkhard, Matthew Ellsworth, Peggy Garberick, Paul Giza, Ken Graham, Gregory Mamayek, Nick Nielsen and Jeff Steen for their "Goofy" suggestions. Now quick, get back in line before Space Mountain closes for the day.

OK, there's no free beer. But a group of students at the IT University of Copenhagen is testing the concept of "open source beer"--a free license to a recipe and brewing process that will enable any user to make beer for fun or profit (). The only requirement: If you make money selling the beer, you must give credit to the group and publish any recipe changes under a similar license. The idea, according to group leaders, is to see if the open-source approach can help develop and improve an analog product. The beer already has a unique ingredient: guarana, a South American stimulant that packs the kick of 35 milligrams of caffeine in a single milligram, which offsets the sleepiness induced by the product's 6 percent alcohol content. Imagine a Heineken laced with Red Bull. Let's go online and brew a batch right now!

Nope, there's no free coffee, either. But there is a new high-tech coffee product on the market: the MugMouse, a computer mouse that doubles as a coffee mug. Designed by engineer Louise Wictoria Klinker, the MugMouse lets you keep your favorite beverage in your hand even as you prowl the wilds of the Web. But don't try to play fast-moving computer games with it--you might end up with a lap full of smoldering joe.

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