The Internet has proven to be a very powerful tool for government protesters, but it's very dependent on infrastructure, making it all too easy for an irate regime to shut it off. This suitcase, and the concept behind it, has been funded by the U.S. State Department as a way to keep people online no matter what happens.

Google and the Chinese government have been going back and forth for a while now, with China wanting Google to continue censoring its search results (with a number of Google's sites, such as Blogger and YouTube, blocked entirely), while Google...