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This new device uses RFID technology to connect your physical possessions with the digital world. Cool.
Violet (the makers of those quirky Nabaztag USB rabbits) is about to unleash Mir:ror, a small puck-shaped USB gadget which acts like an interface between your everyday belongings and your computer…
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October 26th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: design | robotics | strange and wonderful
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The “take a seat” chair is a robotic chair that follows you around! The user has a library card embedded with an RFID chip, which the chairs use to find and follow their target. Also, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
The video is fun to watch as you get to see the chair in action, following this guy around the library…
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June 12th, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: future tech | strange and wonderful
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The tracking technology known as RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is showing up everywhere from grocery stores, to shipping containers, to gas station, to toll roads. Now, your intestines can join in the radio wave fun!
Kodak has filed this patent application for RFID tagged capsules that could be swallowed to track activity in a patient’s digestive system…
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February 18th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: strange and wonderful
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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
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author: technabob