our_first_ideas

During the stig og stein creativity workshop week I hooked up with André and Oyvind, who are also working on the plaful_rfid brief. We decided to take it together from here on and out of the many ideas of the workshop we took the following ones to work a little bit more on:

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Rfid_Body_Submarine

The first one is about a concept that contains an edible rfid-pill which you can swallow and then track it´s way through the digestive system. It´s like in the classic movie Innerspace, where a testpilot is gotten shrunk with a submarine with which he´s diving into a human boody´s bloodstream and digestive system.

In our concept you swallow a mini_submarine which is an rfid_pill. With a reader you can now track it´s way through your body. Thereby learning some new stuff about how your body works, how it is organised and which way the food takes. You can also follow some banana vs. sausage race, if both of them are rfided.

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Learntable

This concept is a very educational one. The main focus is on learning and teaching. We were thinking of a “brain_unit” in which all the programming and some of the feedback could be stored. This brain unit is connected to rfid_readers, which are in tables. Now the brain unit gives the task to a player. For instance: “Spell the word c_a_r!” The player has to find the right letters(which got rfid-tags on them) and place them in the right order on the tables. The brain unit can now check, if it is placed correctly or not and respond. This learntable could also used for other task. “Find the red car!” or “What is 1+5!”. You then have to place a red car(of course a tagged one) or the number six on the reader tables to fulfill the task.

The interesting thing about this concept is, that you can use quite pysical objects and bricks which look like normal toys, but can also interact with the brain unit because of their rfid readability. Another thing is the possibility to have a non screen based teaching program of language and mathematics.