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RFID + Dart gun = DartMail!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the late-than-never dept.

breon.halling writes "Snail mail? Too slow. Email? Too much spam. So what's left? DartMail! Tony Tang and Eric Pattison from the University of Calgary introduce a new (well, new as of January 2003) method of transferring files and possibly shooting your eye out. Using RFID and a toy dart gun, 'DartMail lets people physically shoot electronic information at others.' Be sure to check out the movie, too!"

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  1. Video (and site) CACHE by johnatjohnytech · · Score: 5, Informative

    18 Meg WMV File and Html Page is cached at http://www.flipstartforum.com/dartcache/

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    I Encrypt My IM's
  2. Coral Cache by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Loads faster.

  3. DartMail name owned by Doubleclick by w00master · · Score: 3, Informative
    Funny,

    Doubleclick (aka Dart, aka online advertising deliverer) has an exisiting product called DartMail. Yes, it's for e-mail Spam.

    w00master

  4. Re:Ooh by Sarcastic+Assassin · · Score: 4, Informative

    While you're laughing at their demise, I'm enjoying 300 KB/s download speeds from the Coral link.

  5. Torrent link by redhat421 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can find a torrent for this file here: DartMail.wmv.torrent

  6. Not a new idea by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stuff like what you're talking about is apparently very common in Japan.

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    retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
  7. Re:Digital "Shots" by mfago · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sort of like bluejacking?

  8. Re:Bandwidth? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure I'll do the math. Total band width of a dart 0 mb, nothing is actually stored on the dart. Lame.

  9. Here is a torrent of the Video by TorrentNinja · · Score: 5, Informative

    18MB video of the dartmail :)

  10. torrent by TorrentNinja · · Score: 2, Informative

    whoops.. here is the torrent... 18MB..

  11. Re:A christmas story? by nezroy · · Score: 2, Informative

    The relevance is to the bit about shooting your eye out. As in, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!". See link for details if you haven't seen this movie.

    http://www.flicklives.com/Glossary/red_ryder/gl_ bb _gun.htm