http://www.tikitag.com/ Seems like a very easy way to use RFIDs.
Tikitag is an Alcatel-Lucent venture based in Antwerp, Belgium which provides a service to link the real world with the online world for consumer and business usage via easy-to-apply RFID tags. Currently still in Alpha, the beta launch is planned for launch on October 1st, with the availability of tikitag starter packages and tag packages via e-commerce.
via Core 77, via Bruce Sterling
Categories: internet of things
Just discovered that the Tower Bridge has a twitter profile, here: http://twitter.com/towerbridge
why? It tells to the world when it closes and opens, and what kind of boat is passing, in what direction. Very simple thing, and automatically updated from the bridge lift schedule (here), I guess. But it’s a way to make visible something that was invisible before. It could be information to share with other objects (Navigators? My Nike+ iPhone, when I’m running? traffic lights? Buses and transports?).
2 things are nice: 1 is that information is no more just in a web page, but it actually becomes data, ready to be reused and mashed elsewhere. 2 is that an object (bridge) becomes one of my connections. How many things are connected with me? how many other objects of affection could be part of my profile? maybe my mac at home? I could start an automator task to be updated on things…
And it’s funny that a bridge – which represents a connection in itself – becomes something to be connected with.
Also, is the bridge connected to somebody? maybe to the aficionados, people who uses it often…. It could recognize them as they pass, and say hello in a special way (a twitter message?) what kind of information does it receive and read?
Categories: internet of things · mobile · spaces
Tagged: bridge, data, internet of things, twitter
