Photos: Redesigning the router

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The Route O'Clock is split into 24 glowing segments, colored to indicate signal strength. The idea is to choose the best time to carry out certain tasks, depending on how much bandwidth it'll eat. We're not sure what color it glows if your broadband is being throttled. It's a neat idea--make it a bit smaller and we'll talk.

July 21, 2009 1:00 PM PDT

Photo by: Goldsmiths, University of London

| Caption by: Rich Trenholm

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