Post by The Shootist on Jul 18, 2006 12:49:17 GMT -5
[If you don't know what spimeworld is, skip to the end of the post for a primer].
(Originally found at: www.warrenellis.com/?p=2808)
Here Comes Spimeworld
HP today announced that its researchers have developed a miniature wireless data chip that could provide broad access to digital content in the physical world.
With no equal in terms of its combination of size, memory capacity and data access speed, the tiny chip could be stuck on or embedded in almost any object and make available information and content now found mostly on electronic devices or the Internet.
Some of the potential applications include storing medical records on a hospital patient’s wristband; providing audio-visual supplements to postcards and photos; helping fight counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry; adding security to identity cards and passports; and supplying additional information for printed documents.
The experimental chip, developed by the “Memory Spot” research team at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. The chips could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots.
“The Memory Spot chip frees digital content from the electronic world of the PC and the Internet and arranges it all around us in our physical world,” said Ed McDonnell, Memory Spot project manager, HP Labs.
The chip has a 10 megabits-per-second data transfer rate – 10 times faster than Bluetooth wireless technology and comparable to Wi-Fi speeds – effectively giving users instant retrieval of information in audio, video, photo or document form. With a storage capacity ranging from 256 kilobits to 4 megabits in working prototypes, it could store a very short video clip, several images or dozens of pages of text. Future versions could have larger capacities…
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(Originally found at: www.warrenellis.com/?p=2808)
Here Comes Spimeworld
HP today announced that its researchers have developed a miniature wireless data chip that could provide broad access to digital content in the physical world.
With no equal in terms of its combination of size, memory capacity and data access speed, the tiny chip could be stuck on or embedded in almost any object and make available information and content now found mostly on electronic devices or the Internet.
Some of the potential applications include storing medical records on a hospital patient’s wristband; providing audio-visual supplements to postcards and photos; helping fight counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry; adding security to identity cards and passports; and supplying additional information for printed documents.
The experimental chip, developed by the “Memory Spot” research team at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. The chips could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface, and could eventually be available in a booklet as self-adhesive dots.
“The Memory Spot chip frees digital content from the electronic world of the PC and the Internet and arranges it all around us in our physical world,” said Ed McDonnell, Memory Spot project manager, HP Labs.
The chip has a 10 megabits-per-second data transfer rate – 10 times faster than Bluetooth wireless technology and comparable to Wi-Fi speeds – effectively giving users instant retrieval of information in audio, video, photo or document form. With a storage capacity ranging from 256 kilobits to 4 megabits in working prototypes, it could store a very short video clip, several images or dozens of pages of text. Future versions could have larger capacities…
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What is a spime?
What is spimeworld?
According to Warren Ellis:
Basically Spimeworld is a vision of the future where every object, from your shoes, to your food, has a representation in data. This would, theoretically allow your refrigerator to order more bull testicles when you're running low. Or for us, our airsoft guns would tell us when the gears were stripped, or when the magazine goes empty. Also, each BB would have a data tag, so your HUD glasses would locate the BBs as they alnd, and show you where your shots were falling, even at night.
I can't get excited about a RFID-
SpimeWorld-blogjectsphere-
InternetOfThings future where we
get to google the location of our
shoes in the morning. Data-tagging
everything so we know where all
our stuff is seems to me to be an
essentially Autism Spectrum
enterprise. Arphid socks are right
up there with the Segway in the
list of infantilising technologies, to
my admittedly cranky and fairly
slow mind. I don't wanna walk, I
wanna be carried along by an
electric pushchair. Shut the fuck up.
Walking won't kill you. And find your
own fucking shoes.
SpimeWorld-blogjectsphere-
InternetOfThings future where we
get to google the location of our
shoes in the morning. Data-tagging
everything so we know where all
our stuff is seems to me to be an
essentially Autism Spectrum
enterprise. Arphid socks are right
up there with the Segway in the
list of infantilising technologies, to
my admittedly cranky and fairly
slow mind. I don't wanna walk, I
wanna be carried along by an
electric pushchair. Shut the fuck up.
Walking won't kill you. And find your
own fucking shoes.
Basically Spimeworld is a vision of the future where every object, from your shoes, to your food, has a representation in data. This would, theoretically allow your refrigerator to order more bull testicles when you're running low. Or for us, our airsoft guns would tell us when the gears were stripped, or when the magazine goes empty. Also, each BB would have a data tag, so your HUD glasses would locate the BBs as they alnd, and show you where your shots were falling, even at night.