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Paper E-mail Pads from ThinkGeek

Working in the online biz, I just can’t seem to get away from e-mail. All day and all night, the messages flow. I get hundreds each and every day (and that’s before the spam). I can only imagine how big that stack of would be if the messages were written on good old paper…

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April 11th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

gps goes postal: could help solve usps delivery woes

filed under: strange and wonderful

GPS Letter Logger for USPS

This new device was commissioned by the United States Postal Service in order to hunt down some of the inefficiencies in their mail delivery process. Developed by California’s TrackingTheWorld, the gadget is slipped inside of a letter, and tracks the precise journey of an individual piece of mail…

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November 24th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

mail delivered by actual snails

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Real Snail Mail

Real Snail Mail is an art and technology project being conducted by the technological artists collective of Boredom Research.

The project has real snails delivering electronic messages via tiny RFID tags attached to their shells. The messages are delivered literally “at a snails pace.” to their destinations…

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October 11th, 2006 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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