What do you with all that loose change in your pocket? Besides feeding it to parking meters or soda machines, you could soon be accessing a Wi-Fi signal thanks to Handlink's Wi-Fi Kiosk machine. The coin-operated Wi-Fi station works like this: drop a few coins into the machine, wait for it to print a ticket with an access code, and log in to your temporary account. After your time has elapsed, you'll be asked to deposit more coins or you'll be disconnected and your account deleted.

Anyone with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop or PDA can access the 802.11b/g connection. Strangely, this kiosk is really stuck in time and only accepts coins, so forget about feeding it dollar bills or credit cards. The machine is currently being sold to hotels, coffee shops, restaurants, and convention centers where money is to be made from fee-based Wi-Fi.

Link: Vendor punts coin-operated Wi-Fi base-station (Register Hardware)