The Tales of Things project is located within the emerging technical and cultural phenomenon known as ‘The Internet of Things’. The term is attributed to the Auto-ID research group at MIT in 1999, and was explored in depth by the International Telecommunication Union who published a report bearing the same…
You may of noticed that we recently launched our project ‘TalesofThings‘, a site that tags any media to any object using QRcodes or rfid tags. We have just pushed an update that introduces ‘groups’ so all objects of interest can be viewed in one place. As all things urban are…
The London Festival of Architecture is underway and via the project Tales of the City we have been capturing people’s memories of Shoreditch and playing them back them back via small readable and writeable QR codes and RFID tags. Tales of the City extends the TalesofThings project into the urban…
Every object in existence can be tagged with any media, linked to tell a story, to recount its memories in a read/write environment and tweet when its interacted with. Its a concept that takes a bit of time to take in, for example a wall in Camden Town, London, tweeted…
Have you ever wanted to know the story behind the things you buy? Who owned the object from that charity shop and what about its history, the memories associated with it and why is it now for sale? In association with Oxfam and part of the Manchester Future Everything Festival…
April 16th, 11.42 am and the research project born 18 months ago ‘Tales of Things‘ goes live, documented as the site is all about memories and attaching media to objects via qrcodes and rfid: Tales of Things is part of a research project called TOTeM that will explore social memory…
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