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Visualizing RFID

jamie found a video on Warren Ellis's blog introducing a new way to visualize RFID fields. The film is by Timo Arnall and Jack Schulze. The subject is introduced in words on the BERG site (a design consultancy); the tech behind it is explored at Touch, a project that experiments with near-field communications. "This image is a photographic mapping of the readable volume of a radio field from an RFID reader. The black component in the image is an RFID reader... The camera has been fixed in its position and the reader photographed. Using a tag connected to an LED we paint in the edges of the readable volume with a long exposure and animate them to show the form."

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  1. The Lotus Eater by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The liquid is in your throat
    For hopeless delight

    After all you fell in love with death,
    Life has aborted.
    All you've had and all you became,
    The night is calling, you pray forth.

    The barren waste is your land
    Your crops, they were sown to die

    The skin is a mirror
    The eyes hollow with ignorance
    Health runs from your lips
    Sucked in and safe in a world of sleep

    All those years caring for a liar
    A benefit road that is winding higher
    You're a moth too close to the fire

    You are stuck in a route of confusion
    Changing and waiting and seeking the truth of it all

    Fleeing your sorrows
    Pushing your spirit away

    Sick of the weakness of the psyche
    A whisper from the heart of evil luring them all into despair
    Resenting the goods of a savior

    And cries out
    For the restless will also die

    A selection culled from the damned, drawing a lifeline of one
    A friend died in your room and sought the birth of a follower

    O brother, you are a killer and you target yourself
    I wish you'd never come back for us to see the beckoning end

    And the pride of a mother brought flaws in a mother's son
    And the love from a father was used by a father's son

    Overheard us talking in a smoke of lost hope
    The language of a parting so clear and so true
    Overheard us talking