We all know how annoyingly frustrating it is to misplace stuff around the house — keys, glasses, mobile phones. At least you can ring up your mobile phone, so long as the battery is not dead. Often when we misplace something Afi would wish that we could “miss-call” them.
So here’s an interesting concept called Finder by designers Chu Wang, Qiujin Kou, Qian Yin & Yonghua Zhang.
You paste stickers with RFID tags on your stuff and register it on the smart phone-like finder device. Next time when you misplace your stuff you can call them up on the device and it will point them out for you. Cool, huh?
The idea is not totally original, though. RFID tags are common enough nowadays that it is only a matter of time somebody finds a way of applying it in everything. There are already various forms of key finders out there in the market too. I also remember clearly reading about something similar in Cory Doctorow’s Makers, where a character spends whole days tagging the entire content of his apartment.
I wonder if and when the product will finally make it to the market. Also, it would be great if they can integrate the finder function into smart phones, for example, instead of having another standalone device to misplace. Afterall, all you need is an RFID scanner. Well, maybe they’ll have it on iPhone 6.
:P
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SOURCE: Yanko via My Modern Met.
So here’s an interesting concept called Finder by designers Chu Wang, Qiujin Kou, Qian Yin & Yonghua Zhang.
You paste stickers with RFID tags on your stuff and register it on the smart phone-like finder device. Next time when you misplace your stuff you can call them up on the device and it will point them out for you. Cool, huh?
The idea is not totally original, though. RFID tags are common enough nowadays that it is only a matter of time somebody finds a way of applying it in everything. There are already various forms of key finders out there in the market too. I also remember clearly reading about something similar in Cory Doctorow’s Makers, where a character spends whole days tagging the entire content of his apartment.
I wonder if and when the product will finally make it to the market. Also, it would be great if they can integrate the finder function into smart phones, for example, instead of having another standalone device to misplace. Afterall, all you need is an RFID scanner. Well, maybe they’ll have it on iPhone 6.
:P
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SOURCE: Yanko via My Modern Met.
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