A rather linkbaity headline; I send text messages using vodka pretty often, and then I have to check to see what exactly I said in the morning.<p>Interesting, though. Seems like a series of breezes could seriously impact the communication, though, making the whole robots-in-the-sewer system not work quite so well.
Text messages are only the relatively boring first step in this kind of project. If these guys go on to implement IP/Vodka they can proudly follow in the footsteps of such
hacks as RFC 1149 :-) "The network smells a little slow today"
Sounds like they're shooting for an Ig Nobel prize.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners</a>
I think it's worth exploring non-standard means of establishing networks no matter how ostensibly silly as they can come in extremely useful when e.g. governments try to restrict internet access in oppressive countries or natural disasters occur, etc.<p>Though I'm not sure if this particular example is of much use ;-)
I think the Native Americans did the same thing with smoke. "Smoke" for 1, "no smoke" for zero. And they went way further than across the room.