TOILETS IN THE NEWS
Google announces free in-home
wireless broadband service.
"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed
plumbing-based Internet access"
From the Google Press Center ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free (the Trickle level of service) in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.
"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."
TiSP delivers three levels of Service: Trickle at 8 Mbps is free, The #2 at 16 Mbps is $9.95/mo. and Royal Flush is $24.95/mo at a blazing 32 Mbps.
Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. While easy to install with the TiSP installation kit, you can also request professional installation service.
Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html .
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