Series: April 1, 2020: What's Trending in Technology?
A leading provider of aerosols has packaged 5G mist in an easy-to-use spray can, claiming it can solve nearly all technical problems and even some social issues. According the Jack Sprague, CEO of The Mister Inc., he was inspired by how many references to this thing called “5G” he saw.
He noted that “It seemed whatever and wherever the technical problem was—whether V2V connectivity, super-fast file downloads, medical research, excess data-link latency, almost anything—the answer I saw was almost always this thing called 5G.” That’s when the proverbial light when on in his head, and he told the product-development team to get on the project right away, now marketed as “5G Fixer in a Can.”
The first step, he said, was to license the 5G designation characters from 3GPP, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project standards organization that develops protocols for mobile telephony. “That was easy,” he added, “since our efforts had no impact on their 5G technical standards and had no spectrum, format, or protocol implications.”