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Something
in the Air
Steven Levy, June 7, 2004
With his Wi-Fi equipped Magicbike, Yury Gitman can
bring free Net connectivity anywhere his spirit
moves him...
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Using
a Bicycle to Uplink on a Downtown Platform
David Gallagher, Dec. 15, 2003
As a saxophone's melancholy music bounced off the
tile walls of the subway station at Union Square
in Manhattan last Thursday afternoon, Yury Gitman
was hunched over a laptop computer, trying a different
kind of performance...
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Wireless
Web Gets a Set of Wheels
May 29, 2004
Wireless hotspots are springing up in buildings
and homes all over the world but one New York artist
has literally taken the idea onto the streets, turning
his bicycle into a wi-fi hub...
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Artist
Creates WiFi Bicycle
Future Tense, May 11, 2004
A Brooklyn artist has created a bike that spreads
free wireless Internet access wherever it rolls...
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WiFi
on Two Wheels
MeGaBiTel, May 5, 2004
Yury Gitman is not the average cyclist from Brooklyn.
His goal is to bring more easily accessible free wireless
hotspots to the masses. To do this, he has created
what he calls the Magicbike, a bicycle equipped with
a laptop, power supply and antenna...
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WiFi
on Two Wheels
Lindsey Arent, May 3, 2004
Yury Gitman's bike is unlike any two-wheeler you've
ever seen. Not because it's souped up with fancy
tires or extra gears. But because it's a full-fledged
wireless Internet hotspot on wheels...
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Notes
from the Underground
David Sokol, May, 2004
But on a gray December day last year, 28-year-old
Yury Gitman brought WiFi, however briefly, to a
platform at the Union Square subway station. There,
he sent New York's first underground email to Mayor
Bloomberg. All courtesy of two bicycles equipped
with laptops and antennae...
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Hot
Wheels: Souped-Up Bikes Deliver Wi-Fi Juice for
Cheap
Lisa Sweetingham, Jan 22, 2003
A Magicbike is a regular bicycle that's been outfitted
with a laptop and various Wi-Fi networking gadgets
to turn it into a mobile hot spot, beaming Internet
access to anyone within 330 feet outdoors and about
100 feet indoors...
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Wi-Fi
Wonderland
Stephen Bryant, Aug. 3, 2003
Why go hunting for a hotspot when the hotpot can
come to you? Yury Gitman, the brains behind Evill
Net, built the Magicbike to provide free wireless
access wherever he pedals..."I am like the
ice-cream man, but with no music," Gitman explains
on magicbike.net, "and I deliver free wireless
access and not ice cream"...
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Adbusters
Magazine
Paul Schmelzer, Sept/Oct, 2004
Yury Gitman will be pedaling his MagicBike during
the convention. Offering free internet connectivity
wherever it goes, it'll wire the UK-based collective
OpenSorcery so members can play a military simulator
online and on the streets of New York using high-power
projectors...
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In
New York, a Bicycle Built for WiFi
Paul Festa, May 6, 2004
Yury Gitman, a self-described "wireless and
emerging-media artist" in New York, has outfitted
his bicycle with an iBook laptop and Wi-Fi antennas
so that everywhere he goes, a cloud of free, high-speed
wireless Internet access follows him....
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Magicbike
Demo
Heath Row, Apr. 3, 2004
Yury Gitman is a wireless and emerging-media artist
who "engages Wi-Fi, readymade objects, and
the culture around wireless to create expressive
pieces and art interventions." By employing
a network of Magicbikes, Gitman was one of the first
people to use the Internet in the New York subway.
At WTF 2004, he demonstrated Magicbike, at times
streaming a live video of the conference center's
common area on a screen in the auditorium -- from
a Magicbike parked outside...
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Eyebeam
> Artists in Toyland
Chris Mace, Apr. 2004
At one point Gitman took the bike to a subway platform
in Union Square, providing wireless Internet access
two stories beneath the streets, where he sent an
email to Mayor Bloomberg...
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Magicbike
is the Wheel Deal
Jason Ankeny, Feb. 1, 2004
Yury Gitman hasn't reinvented the wheel, but with
Magicbikes, he has extended the reach of the wireless
Internet by putting the technology on tires...
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