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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!"
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."
Hah! Way back around 1980 some computer technicians I worked with at Tektronix pioneered the InterDepartmental Ballistic Missile. Powered by freon, it flew about 100 ft, streaking over the heads of terrified cubicle inhabitants. They only did it once.
Wow, another dupe, this time one over 1000 years old! Letters by arrow? That's new! Way to go editors...
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 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.
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
Fortunately, we believe that better shielding on our PPTP routes will prevent further packet loss.
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
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
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!!!
While you're laughing at their demise, I'm enjoying 300 KB/s download speeds from the Coral link.
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?
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
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
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...
18MB video of the dartmail :)
Hey, the dartgun will go through Windows, too, assuming they write drivers for it.
this horrible pun brought to you by Monday.
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.
Way back around 1980...Powered by freon
So you're the one to blame for the ozone hole!
About that same time, my engineering department had an IDBD--Inter-Department Ballistic Duck. It was one of those cheesy rubber figures (in our case, Donald Duck) with a suction cup base and a spring inside. Compress it, and it launches when the suction cup vacuum leaks off. We sent messages on bits of paper held in place with rubber bands. Worked great until we accidentally hit a senior manager making a walk-through. The engineering director forthwith confiscated the IDBD and we never saw it again.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.