Penang (Malaysia), June 21: An Indonesian techie is trying to bring in a quiet revolution with the wok - a large, round-bottomed Chinese cooking vessel. His "wokbolic" is a low cost technology that takes wireless connectivity places and dramatically lowers the cost of internet access.
"It's to cook," jokes Onno Widodo Purbo, 44, a writer on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and a former professor.
Improvising on the wok, Purbo cooks a strange meal of information and not of steamed rice or sambar.
Purbo has innovated the use of a wok and USB wifi pen drives to enable wireless travel up to three kilometres instead of the 100 metres range of a wifi pen drive. This lowers the cost of internet use, which can be shared by many using this barefoot technology.
