Immaterial : seeing RFID

Using a simple LED and an RFID sensor attached to it, combined with some clever photography, folks at nearfield and berglondon have come up with this real neat visualization of actual RFID field around any given RFID reader objects. I decided to post this since it seemed like a continuation of the discussion we had earlier on trying to visualize the 'invisible' around us. The video explains how this is done.

Immaterials: the ghost in the field from timo on Vimeo.

The Touch project at nearfield also proposes that the most common shape that has resulted out of the visualization process be used as a symbol for RFID objects worldwide. The image is shown below.