Month: June 2008

There are a lot of creepy uses for RFiD tags, but these robotic chairs that follow the tag in your library card to follow you around while you browse to provide anywhere seating is pretty cute [via Digg]. Watch the video for the example of using the same technology to easily put together group seating areas. There are tons of other neat applications for this – conference rooms or classrooms or really any large meeting space could benefit from easy chair (and table?) rearrangement. What about walking into an airport and having a tag in your boarding pass allow you … Continue reading R2D2 Seating

I am a pack rat when it comes to dead or outdated electronic gadgets. I have a box full of stuff in my storage closet that I figure one day I’ll rip apart for parts – or more likely give to students to use for projects. I am not very discriminating, though. I just thrown everything in there and figure I’ll sort out someday if it has anything useful in it or not. I think I have a few mice in there, though, so I’m thinking of working through this Hack-a-Day on how to scavenge a mouse for parts. As … Continue reading Squeak…