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Examine the control panel of your home security system and see if it is equipped with Internet connection equipment. Typically, there will simply be an Ethernet port somewhere on the alarm system's button panel for a hard-line connection to a Ethernet networking device like a router or switch. If your alarm system does not feature this connection, you will need to upgrade to one that does.Attach the Ethernet cable from one of the Ethernet ports on your networking device to the alarm system's Ethernet port.Reset the Ethernet network by unplugging the power cord from the Ethernet networking device for 30 seconds and plugging it back in. This is an essential step because Ethernet networks will not recognize that a new Ethernet cable has been plugged into them until they have been reset.Contact your security system service provider and inform it you are now using an Ethernet connection. Depending on your service, using this connection may make your subject to extra charges or service upgrades, so take a moment to contact your service provider to ensure your security system will fully function over the Ethernet connection.

How to Use the Internet Instead of Phone Lines for Alarms

Examine the control panel of your home security system and see if it is equipped with Internet connection equipment. Typically, there will ...

<img src="http://cdn.mos.techradar.com//classifications/world%20of%20tech/images/tree-200-200.jpg"> What's got sixteen legs, four eyes and three rows of teeth? We don't know either, but it's right behind you. Only kidding! It's time for this week's Weird Tech, featuring things that don't exist, things you can't buy, things that are too expensive and dangerous to implement and things that might get you groped. Trees are rubbish. They just sit there, doing nothing, occasionally dropping things on your head. Wouldn't it be great if we could get them to do something useful, such as lighting our streets? That's what <a href="http://inhabitat.com/gold-nanoparticles-could-transform-trees-into-street-lights/">an accidental discovery by Taiwanese scientists</A> promises. It turns out that embedding gold nanoparticles in leaves makes them glow. For now, the necessary powder is ridiculously toxic and incredibly pricey, but in the long term "bio-LED could be used to make roadside trees luminescent at night. This will save energy and absorb CO2", Dr Yen-Hsun Su told Chemistry World. Money for nothing You'll recall that the entire global economy collapsed because people were spending money they couldn't afford on property they didn't need. Now, you can be even more irresponsible and spend money you can't afford on property that doesn't even exist. That's right! Virtual real estate is the next big thing! Just ask Yan Panasjuk, who paid $335,000 for a chunk of the entirely imaginary nightclub Neverdie, which only exists in the online game Entropia. </PARAM><PARAM value="true" name="allowFullScreen"></PARAM><PARAM value="always" name="allowscriptaccess"></PARAM><EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/YGjJ4JnVfc0&hl=en&fs=1 width=420 height=315 type=application/x-shockwave-flash allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"> </EMBED></OBJECT> IMAGINE: It's easy to take the mickey out of Entropia. That's what we like. It's easy <a href="http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2010/11/17/meet-the-man-who-paid-a-record-335000-for-virtual-property">Speaking to Forbes</A>, the 34-year-old Bostonian explained that it was a smart move because, um, "Avatar has grossed 2.7 billion dollars worldwide." He might be right, though: the club's previous owner was bringing in two hundred grand a year from selling virtual goods and services to idiots. Er, gamers. Wear your pants with pride Finally, if you're thinking of travelling in the US, you've probably heard of the increase in airport security, where you've got a choice between the pornoscanner – a scanner that sees through clothes – and invasive groping. <img alt="Cargoscan" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/classifications/world%20of%20tech/images/cargoscan-420-90.jpg" width="420"></IMG> THAT'S MAGIC: Wear magic pants. Use magic pants to give security a message. O noes! Rubber gloves! Technology comes to the rescue once again, though: <a href="http://cargocollective.com/4thamendment">4th Amendment Wear</A> uses metallic inks to display that particular bit of the US Constitution (it's the part about unreasonable searches) to the pornoscanner operator. And it's not limited to T-shirts: you can get the amendment printed on your underpants. Lights! Apple! Action! What do you buy the Apple fan who has everything? That's right – you buy them a Steve Jobs action figure, or at least you would if those killjoys at Apple hadn't <a href="http://store.micgadget.com/apple-toys-figures/212-steve-jobs-action-figure.html">sent a cease and desist letter to Micgadget</A>. <img alt="Steve jobs figure" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/classifications/world%20of%20tech/images/SJ%20Figure-420-90.jpg" width="420"></IMG> ONE MORE THING:This magical and revolutionary product had an unbelievable price of $79.90 before Apple's lawyers intervened Apparently a model of Jobs with stick-on speech balloons that you can scribble "Boom", "Magical" and "Amazing" on breaches Californian copyright law. That's our plans for Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Steve Ballmers buggered, then. Oi! Three eyes! If a man's got <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101123/ap_on_en_ot/us_the3rd_eye">a camera glued to his head</A>, it's probably art – and it certainly is in Wafaa Bilal's case. The New York University arts professor has had a small video camera implanted into the back of his head "as an allegorical statement about the things we don't see and leave behind". <img alt="Wafaa" src="http://mos.futurenet.com/techradar/classifications/world%20of%20tech/images/wafaa-420-90.jpg" width="420"></IMG> ARTY FARTY: This is Wafaa Bilal's website. We don't understand it, so it must be art Previously Bilal has encouraged people to fire paintballs at him 24/7 and created a video game featuring himself as a suicide bomber.

Weird Tech: Forget street lights, use glowing trees instead

What's got sixteen legs, four eyes and three rows of teeth? We don't know either, but it's right behind you. Only kidding! It...