The Net Extender, which retails for $100, consists of two black boxes; connect one to your cable or D.S.L. modem and the other to your game console and they work as an invisible cable, transmitting data as far as 100 feet.
Well-intentioned friends often try to convince me to go off-grid, but in using batteries, electrical cables and photovoltaic panels (as I once did), I would still be connected, by a peculiar sort of invisible cable, to the global network of quarries, factories, courtrooms, mines, financial institutions, bureaucracies, armies, transport networks and workers needed to produce such things.
The horses - real ones - galloped full-pelt towards the audience, secured by invisible steel cable traces and running on treadmills.
An invisible carbon nanotube cable has been proposed that could be strong enough to support a person's weight.
Running beneath every street is an invisible, honeycombed world of cables and conduits, pipes and vaults.
It went on to explain that the walkway would be supported by "a virtually invisible system of steel cable wires designed to hold the structure firm and steady without impacting tree roots".
Al Jazeera English is available in more than 100 countries, including Canada, but it is almost totally invisible in the United States - except on cable providers in Burlington, Vt . Toledo, Ohio and Washingtonn.
While it will still be invisible to consumers, a new generation of cable modems will be able to break voice traffic into packets using Internet protocol (IP) technology, just as e-mail messages are handled.
The only official method is to stick a paper clip into one of two almost invisible holes hidden behind a door to the cable connections and labeled with the tiniest icons my bifocals have ever tried to resolve.
Millions of invisible bits of data were being transmitted through underground cable wires and satellite networks, and I was their sole subject and object of concern.
