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Equitrac is an ID + information shadow layer on top of a typical office printer set up. By making you identify yourself to the printer (via RFID) it not only helps to ensure you collect what you print but the system can track when, what, and how much you print.
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The Nokia Play 360º Bluetooth speaker connects to your phone - using NFC.
(Source: nearfield.org)
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The Catalogue - RFID and CCTV simulation, by Chris Oakley (2004)
“Crystallising a vision of ‘us seen by them’, The Catalogue explores the codification of humanity on behalf of corporate entities. Through the manipulation of footage captured from life in the retail environment, it places the viewer into the position of a remote and dispassionate agency, observing humanity as a series of units whose value is defined by their spending capacity and future needs.”
(Via Adam Greenfield)
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DisplayCabinet is the output of 24 hours with Tim Burrell Saward and Dan Williams “connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” as part of the Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon.
What we did.
The aim of our project was to tackle turning data into information that’s easy to digest and act upon. We set out to avoid screens that draw focus and create a prototype “calm” projected display for the data created by, for and about the people, products and services that can be found in and around the home.
How we did it.
We embedded a group of inanimate ornamental objects with RFID tags. Totems or avatars that represent either people, products or services. We also added RFID tags to a set of house keys and a wallet. Functional things that you carry with you. This group of objects combine with a set of shelves containing a hidden projector and RFID reader to become DisplayCabinet.
How it works.
By default DisplayCabinet shows a small ring of light on the table below. When an object is placed into the ring it expands to show the information relevant to the thing they represent.
Your house keys become an overview for your home. Energy consumed, current cost of energy per day, broadband allowance used and simple weather. It also serves as the screen that displays any scheduled alerts or important information relating to other items on the shelf. The bins need to be emptied and Mr Cuddles, the household pet is out and there’s something wrong with the fridge.
The fridge is showing that the temperature isn’t quite right and that the energy consumption is lower than usual. It’s also showing that the milk is low which could easily be based on the weight of the milk container in the fridge door. The message that the sausages go off tomorrow is really a hat tip to something that Chris Heathcote offered up recently in that services like Ocado print the sell by dates of the food you order on the receipt. This information is in a database somewhere so it’s no real stretch of the imagination to link that up to your fridge to create an internet fridge that doesn’t have a gigantic touch screen on the front of it.
Placing the little tube train on the table shows you the status of the tube lines…
and placing the bus on the table displays your local bus stops and the buses that are due to arrive.
Your wallet could display data from your online bank and show your balance, income, outgoings and combine that with data from your Oyster. Total balance, journeys made, stations visited and total distance covered.
Totems for people could show the location of their last geotagged tweet, comment, photo or check-in and show feeds from their social networks, which in this case is Twitter.
Results
It’s far from perfect but this is just the beginning. It’s sketching in hardware and I have a tiny confession to make. The information being displayed isn’t live but I really don’t think that matters because it’s very much an early prototype. A day one prototype even and the choices we made were based on actual data that could be taken from Pachube and other APIs. Given a bit more time, some additional hackery and a few asks this project would be pretty much fully functional.
I’m really happy that DisplayCabinet was received very well by the other hackers even though it’s a design hack and not a technical hack. It won a prize too. A GPRS router and a year of data courtesy of Arkessa! Not bad for your first hack day.
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Jordi Parra has made an RFID triggered Spotify player.
“In a nutshell the objects consists of Processing sketch, Arduino and an RFID reader. Each RFID tag can be assigned to a Spotify link, album, artist or search. When the tag is placed on the reader, an ID-12, it sends a trigger to Processing and triggers an AppleScript that will take over Spotify and play whatever is linked to that tag. The processing sketch can also retrieve the information about the track that is being played. For doing so, a packet sniffer is checking all the internet packets sent from the computer and whenever it finds something being sent to Last.fm, it grabs it and parses the track information (artist, album, title and length).”
You can read more about it at Creativeapplications and on Jordi’s project blog.
(Source: prostheticknowledge)
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RFID shoe concept for WESC by students at Hyper Island.
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Getyoo lets you exchange virtual business cards and collect digital information about objects in the real world thanks to a useful device, the Clickey!
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The Bijlmer Euro is a complimentary local currency for South East of Amsterdam which creates economic benefits for local people, inspires social connections and builds a complex network identity for The Bijlmer. There are 2000 Bijlmer Euro notes that can be used at 17 participating local shops to get special discounts.
Each Bijlmer Euro has a unique electronic chip which means you can see where they are being used.
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Starting next month, Wal-Mart will place removable “smart tags” on individual garments that can be read by a hand-held scanner. Wal-Mart workers will be able to quickly learn, for instance, which size of Wrangler jeans is missing, with the aim of ensuring shelves are optimally stocked and inventory tightly watched. If successful, the radio-frequency ID tags will be rolled out on other products at Wal-Mart’s more than 3,750 U.S. stores.
