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The "Sony Ericcson Ring" by Tao Ma from Beijing won the The Sony-Ericsson Concept Phone Design Competition in China.
Slashphones.com offers a full view of all the concept phones from the Chinese students.
If you though the array of tech-abbreviations was used up, here is another one: RFIG (Radio Frequency Identity and Geometry transponder).
Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab is working on ways to extend RFID tags by adding a photo-sensor. Objects that are tagged can have their data (size, annotations, 3D position etc) presented by using a hand-held mobile projector, called an RFIG Lamp, thus augmenting the information and making RFID interaction more intuitive.
• Mitsubishi Electronic Research Lab
Posted by Sebastian on Oct 15, 2004
In the summer 2004 the theme park Legoland in Denmark launched a child-tracking service in collaboration with the insurance company TRYG.
The Kidspotter kit - which is available for rent - consists of a small wristband with a tiny RFID/WI-FI sender, plus a special Kidspotter map of the park.
The wristband is placed on the child's arm and if the parents lose sight of the little creature they can send an SMS message to the Kidspotter system. They will automatically receive a return message stating the name of the park area and the map coordinate of their child's position in the park with an accuracy of 3 meters. On the special Kidspotter map of the park, parents can see where to find their child.
The service is developed by kidspotter.com.
Posted by Sebastian on Oct 15, 2004
TraceEncounters is a social network tracking and visualization project that had its debut at the Ars Electronica Festival 2004. Approximately 900 participants got a small stickpin each of which uses limited-rage infrared data exchange to remember every other pin that it encounters.
During the festival, the RFID stickpins would dynamically update the information to a database with the intention to visualize the social relations between the 900 pins and people.
Besides producing nice visualizations, TraceEncounters might as well be seen as a handy surveillance tool for parents or other authorities who wants to know who's socializing with who within a given RFID enabled group.
Contact: Sebastian Campion