I’m always on the look out for places where digital technology in the (hate to say this) “virtual space” converges with the physical real-world, and this is something I know my colleague @Poate also looks for – but from the other side (i.e. I am digital, he is “real world” physical).
iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.
So, this is interesting to both of us, and I think it might be to you also. I found this whilst doing my daily scoot of engadget.com, a nice work-in-progress example of a digital app, running on an iPhone, connected to an RFID reader, detecting tags in physical objects to play associated media clips back on the iPhone.
It’s obviously an early WIP judging from the size of the RFID reader attached to the device!, but it’s a good proof-of-concept and it shows just how handy RFID could end up being, say, for an in-store environment where the reader is in a kiosk, or just attached to some kind of large display, and the tags are in physical objects of some kind – say an SLP product promotion piece.
Check out the video below for bob the builder and moomins!
Howard
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