http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/06/20130609-img5957620.jpgNo, we’re not joking. Google is seriously proposing hot air ballon-powered internet access, and has already launched a pilot project in New Zealand. One of the Google[x] moonshot projects, there are a couple of videos embedded after the break explaining the issue, and the technology Google wants to use to address it. The project’s playful logo the custom designed antennas users will use to receive their signal from balloons floating twice as high as commercial airplanes fly. According to Google, in “more than half” of the countries in the southern hemisphere and for two out of three people on earth,
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Source: Google Blog, Project Loon (Google+), Project Loon