« Spaces made from cable ties | Main | Catfish clay pot »
August 11, 2008
Snail mail for real!
Here's an epic way of using snails. The Real Snail Mail project by Boredom Research (I'm serious) for the 2008 Siggraph Slow Art Exhibition uses live snails to deliver your emails. 3 snails were tagged with RFID chips. Anytime you compose an email via their website, it's delivered to one of those snail agents. Then it's all up to them as they aimlessly wander around the tank until the hit one of the drop off points.
As of now only one snail has managed to deliver his email taking a whopping 1.88 days. Hey, considering the message came from the other side of the country, the snail still delivered it faster than the post office.
via Gizmodo
Posted by tranism at 10:45 PM | Permalink