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RFID + Dart gun = DartMail!
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!"
Are they going to make Dart USB Media, Dart compactflash card, dart gigadrive... basically anything small enough to stick on a dart ?
Talk about free flow of information...
now spammers can cap your ass in the streets. "get a bigger penis, muthafucka!"
a potato gun with a message carved into the potato or a carrier pigeon and a canon just seem so much more obvious.
"Look Lois, the two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a fat white guy who is threatened by change."
Wow, another dupe, this time one over 1000 years old! Letters by arrow? That's new! Way to go editors...
Aw, hell. F=MA right? Well, print your email out, wrap it around a brick and chuck that sucker at whomever you want to deliver the message to. Goes through windows, and gets peoples attention much better than a piddling little dart.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
....threw a dart at that server...
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Shoot me!!! Shoot me!!! Shoot me!!!
This is hilarious, I am quite literally watching the download speed of the video on their page dwindle down to nearly nothing. Ah, the power of the SlashDot effect
RockMail (TM)!!!!
Exchange messages with your friends by hurling special MessageRocks (TM) at them!
Fun with concussions!
Coming soon:
VoiceMail (pat.pending)!!!!
Communicate with your friends by using 'Words' (tm) that you issue from your 'Mouth' (TM)!!!!
It's Audioriffic!
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I wouldn't want to get spammed by that...
I wonder if they make a BFG model?
18 Meg WMV File and Html Page is cached at http://www.flipstartforum.com/dartcache/
I Encrypt My IM's
Loads faster.
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Message for you sir!
I'd be more interested in seeing something that would let you shoot a specific bit of information wirelessly at specific people near you. Seems like it'd be a funny way (now and then) to get to know people, by sending weird little one-liners to them from across a room. Among other possible "silent-communication" possibilities.
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Fortunately, we believe that better shielding on our PPTP routes will prevent further packet loss.
-Rob
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I'll be ducking when they implement offline d-Mail. Imagine logging on to the network one morning only to be assaulted by a phalanx of darts coming from the server room...
'Til someone losses a server!
You sly dog: you got me monologuing! - Syndrome
Anyway, this would be a lot more "useful" (and I use that term loosely)if they weren't just sending pointers to files that are on a shared server. This implies they've already got a network link between them, making a physical transport even more pointless than it would be anyway.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Ehh.. I saw this on memepool this morning. Best of luck to the University of Calgary's lab web server...
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
DDOS attacks on people could get messy.
The accuracy of the info is only as good as the person's aim.
Packet-routing could be a bitch!
Imagine the new-found creativity from those Punch-The-Monkey ads.
"Are you saying I can dodge bullets?" "No, Neo, I'm saying you can READ them."
The mailman can put his skills to use: BANG! BANG! You've Got Mail!!!
Doubleclick (aka Dart, aka online advertising deliverer) has an exisiting product called DartMail. Yes, it's for e-mail Spam.
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What you gotta decide is did I fire four RFID tags or five? See in all the excitement I kinda lost count.
So, do ya feel lucky...punk? Well, do ya?
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The systemic redundancy should deal with "packet loss".
As opposed to posting on Slashdot bitching about how someone else spends their time? ;)
You can find a torrent for this file here: DartMail.wmv.torrent
Stuff like what you're talking about is apparently very common in Japan.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Damn, I wish my name was Tony Tang. I'll bet there's no end to the number of cool nicknames he's got.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Do you actually have to ask? This IS "news for nerds", remember... If you can't see the appeal in having an excuse to combine geeky electronics + launching ballistic projectiles at "friends", then maybe you're on the wrong forum...
Hey, just spitballing, but what if ammunition manufacturers were required to add RFID tags to individual rounds?
(Okay, I know how cost prohibitive this would be, as well as technically difficult - how would the tag even survive? But ignore that for a sec.)
Ballistic analysis during a homicide investigation is usually used to try to determine what weapon fired a round in a given incident, assuming you cant say for certain. But what if the ballistics data isn't good enough? If the round had a surviving RFID tag, it could eventually be tracked back not only to its manufacturer, but to the store that sold it, and in theory to whom.
Just a thought.
18MB video of the dartmail :)
We're updating the old Tannenbaum comment, right?
668: Neighbour of the Beast
whoops.. here is the torrent... 18MB..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<game>
<tag>
<it>you</it>
</tag>
</game>
You've got INCOMING!!!!!!
we used to do the same thing with floppy disks between cubicles. Write the name of the person on it, toss it out there into the field of cubes. If a disk landed in your cube and was not destined for you then you were to give it another toss in the general direction of the person to whom it was addressed. Someone (Me) tried a rubber band launcher just for kicks but it really didn't work that well. Practice ended one day when a BOSS was beaned in the head with a flying disk.
Seems to me those soft fabric frisbees would be good for this since they should fly further and not be such a shock to be hit with. Sew a pocket into the underside of it and put your disk, USB key, RFID tag, or whatever in it and give it a toss.
I'd be more interested in seeing something that would let you shoot a specific bit of information wirelessly at specific people near you.
We should be able to do this in our cars by now. It's gotta be more efficient than speaking in ones (finger raised) and zeros (fist raised)!
No really, I would only use it only to helpfully point out to other drivers that they left their blinkers on or ask them to kindly allow me to change lanes.
Fasten your seat belt, you've got mail!
About two years ago I saw a guy speak at a school board meeting, and complain about how difficult it was to be a substitute teacher--it's hard to hold kids accountable when you don't know their names or anything about them. He said he envisioned a system where kids would all where electronic ID badges (he didn't refer to RFID but he described the concept) and all school staff would get some kind of tagger that could read the kids info, and append the disciplinary file. Everybody thought this was absurdly authoritarian, but 2 years later there are plans to start tracking students using RFIDS...and the crazy thing the guy said: "When some class clown shoots a spit ball, I should be able to fire a demerit right back" is also closer to reality.
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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.
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http://www.flicklives.com/Glossary/red_ryder/gl