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Final Note

Park in Israel equipping donkeys with Wi-Fi routers

Tess Vigeland Aug 22, 2012
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And this final note. An historical park in northern Israel is going high-tech. It’s strapping Wi-Fi routers onto donkeys that carry tourists through the hills around the sea of Galilee. So now you can don biblical garb and ride an ancient animal while looking up your location on Wikipedia.

But really, if you’re out in the middle of the holy land and you can’t live without a router-carrying donkey so you can tweet and update your Facebook status? What you might need is a kick in the…

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