When you take a seat in a coffee shop, the wifi strength you receive via their network will vary, sometimes significantly, depending upon where you sit (try working behind a stone partition in an Edinburgh Starbucks, for example).
Today’s invention is an attempt to enhance and exploit these differences.
A coffee shop could invest in localised hot-spot and shielding technology, so that some areas would have multiplayer games capability and other areas would be deliberate deadzones.
People could choose a seat in a ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ area (which staff could determine from a behind the counter screen. These areas would change dynamically, depending upon the network usage of current customers).
The price of the products they buy would be made proportionate, in realtime, to the popularity of their chosen location.
