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Mmmm… Do you have the answer to that question?

Well, useless to say that lots has been achieved since the first telegraph message sent by Samuel Morse on May 24, 1844, from the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland.

Means of communication have significantly improved for the past 150 years, to the point that today almost everything can be done wirelessly on-the-go from the palm of your hand, while standing thousand of miles away from your message’s recipient.

So what will be tomorrow’s way to communicate between individuals? Will it be holographic? Psychic and shared through an AI engine? or automatized? If we’re considering this last one as the most probable, then we are almost stepping in that future.

In 1973, Mario Cardullo patented what would be the first true ancestor of modern RFID: a passive radio transponder with 16 bit memory for use as a toll device. Today, Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is being used for an increasing number of interactions with everyday infrastructures. From travelcards, keyless entry, passports and micropayments to content downloads, smart posters and digital wallets on mobile phones.

Eventually, RFID has also turned into a communication assistant, empowering daily things, making them interactive, connected, content-rich and communicant.

This has been made possible to the consumer market thanks to an innovation developped by Violet, and which features the first totally user-friendly consumer RFID chip reader with entirely user-customizable functions: the Mir:ror. Thanks to this device, your objects now speak and write for you…

Picture this: your umbrella gives you the weather forecast; your kid’s teddy bear reads him email you send him from the office; your pill box remembers the days and times when you’ve taken your medication; your customer files, full of paperwork, open Excel files of business in progress on their own; your jars of cosmetics give you personalized beauty advice; your action figures and art toyz teleport into virtual 3-D worlds; your ordinary paper books contain video appendices; your coffee mugs communicate on Facebook; Grandpa’s portrait sitting on the dresser can tell you about his genealogy and life story; that pretty shell you picked up on the beach brings back fond holiday memories in pictures and sounds… and sky’s the limit as users can also enrich their existing objects with contextual (nomad) applications.

Everyday objects are now becoming interactive, connected, content-rich with ever increasing remotely controlled services. And the icing on the cake: these once inert now living and communicative objects just speak up within their contextual use.

I just now need to figure out which applications I’ll give every single of the 20 Ztamp:s I have…

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Mir:ror Pack available from $US 29.90 on ztore.net: contains one Mir:ror, one Mirror:skin, 3 blank Ztamp:s and 2 Nano:ztags.

12 x RFID Ztamp:s kit available from $US 19.90

Links: http://www.violet.net/_mirror-give-powers-to-your-objects.html

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