Email, The Snail Mail Way
“Culturally, we seem obsessed with immediacy. Time is not to be taken but crammed to bursting point.”
Attempting to change this, comes Real Snail Mail, part of a “slow art” project at Bournemouth University in the UK.
Here’s how it works:
Snails, each fitted with a tiny capsule which holds a Radio Frequency Identification (
RFID) chip that allows objects to communicate over short distances, stand by to serves as messengers for your message.
Users of the service send a message via the Real Snail Mail website which is routed to the tank at the speed of light to await collection by a snail “agent”.
As the three snails slowly amble around the tank, they occasionally come into range of an electronic reader, which attaches the e-mail message to the RFID chip.
The electronic messages are then physically carried around the tank by the snails until one of the gastropods passes close to a second reader.
It is then forwarded over the net in the usual way.
Not surprisingly, messages can take days, weeks or even months to arrive. [Via]
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