Task 3_touchable service

The challenge of this task was to find new applications and ways to use
the RFID technology, recently implemented by nokia, that built a prototype of the 3220 model wit this technology inside.
The rfid is a radio frequency based technology, that consist in the identification of object, animals and people by reading information inside a tag (microchip with data). We have some examples of the ordinary use of this technology in japan, where it is used for almost every kind of payment/booking services (for more information visit http://www.suica.jp/).
Me, Einar and Andre have looked at how RFID can be used as a link between people and the services that the city offers.
The Main idea, was to put RFID tags under city maps that you can find all over the city: using your mobile phone you could have url links to all theservices marked on the map, and have a lot of informations as schedule time of cinemas and theatres,opening time of shops etc.
We designed a simple graphic interface for this kind of map: it is divided by areas, you have an overview of all the zone of the city where you can use this services and a zoom of the area where you are at the moment, with all the rfid links, marked by the little grey and yellow phone logo.
You would find those maps in some strategic places of the city as bus stops, metro stations, shopping malls etc.
We also went in deep prototyping this service for an indie-recordstore in Oslo called Tiger, andhis community of loyal customers, wich use the shop as a musical information center.
You will find more info on this part of the project on Einar's weblog: http://einarproject.blogspot.com/