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This vid is bounc­ing around on tum­blr. It’s a look at how inter­ac­tion can be so intu­itive, and feel so real that other beings inter­act and expe­ri­ence some­thing very real. Watch­ing this “smart cat” play with an iPad just like it would with a string or a key­board tells us how far our inter­faces have come. How rich a good touch inter­face can be is very exciting.

Enjoy.

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Was just over at the Philadel­phia Museum of Art search­ing for their hours on Sun­day. Was try­ing to get over to the Gorky Exhi­bi­tion, spaced that Sun­day was the last day. So why when I come to the wel­come page can’t I find the hours in the footer or a box?

I click Infor­ma­tion. Not there.
I click Vis­it­ing. Quick scan, Not there.
I click sitemap. Not there.

Not until I go back to vis­it­ing do I notice that under Main Build­ing that there are hours another click away. Now when I click hours under Main Build­ing (what­ever that is) I get all the vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion for all of the build­ings. What the &%!.

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iPhone RFID: object-based media from timo on Vimeo.

What if every object could tell its own story? Haven’t you wished that you could just google any­thing? Well if you use RFID you can get infor­ma­tion from any object that has an elec­tronic tag. Each object in a way is a smart object.

If you have a reader attached to a device like a smart device, in this case an iPhone. You can come in prox­im­ity of the object and tell you the object’s story. It’s pretty inter­est­ing tech­nol­ogy that can be used say for tour­ing muse­ums. You step up to a paint­ing or sculp­ture and put your iphone next to the label. It rec­og­nizes the paint­ing and allows you to see con­tent about the work. Add links to sources on the net and an expan­tion of infor­ma­tion based on your interests.

This is a nifty video show­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using RFID. If you want to know more Check out this post: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/04/iphone-rfid-nfc

What if every object could tell its own story? Haven’t you wished that you could just google any­thing? Well if you use RFID you can get infor­ma­tion from any object that has an elec­tronic tag. Each object in a way is a smart object.

If you have a reader attached to a device like a smart device, in this case an iPhone. You can come in prox­im­ity of the object and tell you the object’s story. It’s pretty inter­est­ing tech­nol­ogy that can be used say for tour­ing muse­ums. You step up to a paint­ing or sculp­ture and put your iphone next to the label. It rec­og­nizes the paint­ing and allows you to see con­tent about the work. Add links to sources on the net and an expan­tion of infor­ma­tion based on your interests.

This is a nifty video show­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using RFID. If you want to know more Check out this post: http://www.nearfield.org/2009/04/iphone-rfid-nfc

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