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BBC Broadcasting House
Andy Hudson-Smith was on this week’s Click On show for Radio 4 and has also left a QR code in the reception of Broadcasting House where visitors can add their memory of their time there. To listen to the pod … Continue reading
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tales of things now live!
You can now visit our website and tag your memorable object. The site allows you to print your own QR codes, tag an object and connect a media file such as YouTube or Flickr so that your memories will go … Continue reading
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Article in New Scientist
Read about Tales of Things in the New Scientist this week. Great to be public at last! You can follow us on Twitter to be kept up to date on when the website will launch (it will be soon..) Read Article Here
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Tales of Things Trailer
www.talesofthings.com
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Tales of Things coming soon!
Well, we are almost ready to go with our website talesofthings.com which will be launched mid April, watch this space! Andy Hudson-Smith will be talking about the project with a lecture entitled the ‘Geography of Everything’ at CASA on April 13th. … Continue reading
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First TOTeM Paper has been published!
TOTeM has a paper in the current edition of M/C Journal which looks at how object tagging can add more meaning to objects and also create meaningful human networks. See first part of article below: Connections In Small … Continue reading
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Call for Papers, Future Internet
The Fututre Internet Journal is looking for papers for a special issue on The Internet of Things: “Spimes are manufactured objects whose informational support is so overwhelmingly extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial … Continue reading
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Digital Economy Event
The TOTeM team have landed after taking part in the “Design in the Digital World” networking event at the Delfina in London on Tuesday night. The event was run for the Digital Economy project’s funded by the Research Councils UK. … Continue reading
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Social RFID
Ralph picked up on this interesting project from 2006 which shares very similar ideas to the TOTeM project but instead looks at the “emotional” histories behind generic objects that people may have shared memories of: http://www.socialrfid.org/
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Art Galleries to use RFID
A new system is being developed by International Conservation Services, to enable art galleries to track and manage their valuable objects. This will use RFID technology as a way to monitor objects in the same way that manufacturing companies use … Continue reading