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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Really cool physical computing space...you will have lots of fun.<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Michael Lechasseur <mlecha@artengine.ca><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> lab@artengine.ca <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, November 8, 2012 11:25:19 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Lab] NFC tags<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Just discovered physical NFC tags, which you could use with an NFC enabled phone to have it do/not do stuff. (Turn Wifi on when you get home without running Wifi all day draining your battery, go into Airplane mode when bed side so that it doesn't radiate your head all night long
etc..)<BR><BR>Let me know if you have any spare tags to sell, or I'll order a few in the next couple of days.<BR><BR>eg: <A href="http://kimtag.com/k/cat/1/nfc_stickers" target=_blank>http://kimtag.com/k/cat/1/nfc_stickers</A><BR><BR>Fun stuff.<BR><BR>Oh, they have NFC wristbands. Surely the Bluesfest ones must be encrypted somehow and not be easily cloned? Hmm..<BR><BR><A href="http://kimtag.com/k/item/67/nfc_products_nfc_wristband" target=_blank>http://kimtag.com/k/item/67/nfc_products_nfc_wristband</A><BR><BR>Michael<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Lab mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca" ymailto="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca">Lab@artengine.ca</A><BR><A href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab" target=_blank>http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab</A><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>