Digital Trends News' Geoff Duncan reports on the arrival of Geek Technique's new device called the Slurpr, which "proposes to aggregate bandwidth from up to six Wi-Fi networks into a single, very wide pipe."

"The idea is that the box can transparently connect to available Wi-Fi networks and offer its user all the available bandwidth as a single connection," Duncan writes. "Of course, the connections aren't actually bonded into a true single connection: from the description, the Slurpr seems to use a round-robin approach to connections, using different available connections for different requests. So, loading a Web page, the text may come in via one connection, a big image via another, and you could be streaming video via still another connection at the same time: it's not same as having one giant broadband pipes, but being able to use a bunch of small pipes is still better for most things than using a single small pipe."

The concern is that the device will be used for high-bandwidth wardriving, stealing Wi-Fi from multiple nearby networks at once -- and it's enough of a concern that the guys at Geek Technique are considering requiring purchasers to sign a waiver before they can get a Slurpr of their very own...

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