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thedailywhat:

Rube Goldberg Machine of the Day: For “Nearness” — the first video in “a series of explorations into designerly applications for RFID” — the London-based design agency Berg created an futuristic, touch-free Rube Goldberg machine which relies on RFID to trigger its various stages.

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I first heard about RFID chips years ago on this nutjob’s blog (nutjob is a technical term and I am allowed to use it here because I don’t mean it in a bad way just in a “the guy had an rfid chip surgically inserted into his body so he didn’t have to unlock doors and switch stuff on” kinda way) and always wondered if I would ever see the day when we all had one.  I guess that time is getting nearer….