The New York Times has done a special on circuits — mostly covering wireless devices. There are some very interesting stories here, and I’ll break out some of the more important ones into seperate posts. From this page you can access all of them, including articles about a do-it-yourself WiFi mobile, the shift into making mobiles into digital Swiss Army Knives and the interaction between mobiles and cars.
There’s also a piece on Grafedia, which aims to connect the wireless and physical worlds through graffiti. “Here is how it works: the person posting the piece of grafedia uploads an image to the grafedia site (www.grafedia.net) and chooses a word to associate with it (“here”). That person then writes the word in a public place (street, print media, Internet) and underlines it in blue (the mark that distinguishes grafedia from graffiti; a full e-mail address is also a tip-off)…On the other end, when people see the writing and recognize it as grafedia, they send a text message or e-mail note to the appropriate e-mail address (the underlined word plus @grafedia.net, or here @grafedia.net in the East Village example), and are sent the image.”
There’s a lot of these type of things about, that involve physical clues to virtual content, and while they’re mostly pretty cool gimmicks at the moment it won’t be long before it enters the mainstream…
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