Dean Fankhauser

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October 29, 2009

RFID Toys

Connected, more intelligent objects are on the way and one of the most obvious objects to begin with are toys.

I absolutely love this kind of technology. It’s taking simple objects that haven’t changed in decades, even centuries and plugging them into the benefits of 21st century technology.

This particular product, called the ‘Sniff’ is a start of where some of these products could be heading. It was designed by Sara Johansson, from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. It was originally designed to help children with impaired vision to interact with objects that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to appreciate.

An RFID interrogator is placed inside the toys nose which identify’s tags that are placed in close proximity to tagged objects.

Watch the video below to see how it works.

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October 14, 2009

iPhone 4th Generation - The Internet of Things

I'm not trying to predict the next iPhone features, but it's pretty likely the next iteration will include an RFID reader.

The power of this feature will introduce the internet of things to a much larger audience. It will in effect have the same influence the iPhone 3GS has had on augmented reality, well technically layers.

What's possible with mainstream adoption of RFID readers? There are basic things like payment services and how we use the Oyster card in London today. Then there are new communications opportunities, whereby users hold their phone against an object such as a toy and the phone can perform a certain action like playing a movie or presenting a voucher.

This technology has been fairly mainstream in Japan and South Korea for a number of years as this is the strategy handset manufacturers had pursued there. American and European handset manufacturers had lagged in this area for a long time, but if the usage in Japan in any indicator as to what we can expect from this technology, it looks very exciting to say the least.

We've waited a long time for this to take off, and the next iPhone might just do that.

The video below will give you an idea of the sort of interaction and features we can expect.

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