RFID Paper Radio

Paper lately seems to have caught the fancy of artists, designers and crafters alike. The latest fusion of paper crafts and technology is a laser cut paper radio created by Matt Brown.

Equip with RFID chips, each paper radio is programmed with a preference for a particular musician or band. When placed over a speaker (embedded with an RFID reader I assume), the radios triggers the musician's or band's songs to play.

The concept, I believe, is to bring a certain set of tangibility to the now intangible world of digital music and internet radio.

RFID Paper Radio

It would be pretty cool though if they weren't all shaped like radios—I'd love to have a collection of charming paper trinkets, each assigned to a particular genre of music.

via Mocoloco

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Comment by Syuzi on October 15, 2009 at 11:49am: I'd love to see what a Lady GaGa paper RFID radio/trinket would look! ;-) I also think this is a great idea for a "mixed tape." (yah I know the concept is overdone but...) You can have your friends craft playlists as well as origami-eque objects that go along with the playlists. Anyway you can take this project in a million directions. Please LMK of future projects that center around technology.

Comment by johnny.precious on October 15, 2009 at 9:53am: Alison, have the sparkle labs people seen this project at all? I curious to know if they like it. I only had a week to do the project...Syuzi, I agree- there should be all sorts of different shapes and themes.

Comment by Syuzi on October 14, 2009 at 1:25pm: awesome! LMK when they are available — would love to post about them.

Comment by Alison Lewis on October 13, 2009 at 7:31pm: Great post. When I talked to the people of Sparkle Labs, they seemed to be working on some kind of electronic paper trinkets. Don't know when they are going on sale, but I'll keep you posted when they come out... they'd be a great follow up for this post.