{"id":776,"date":"2005-02-15T01:51:01","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T05:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=776"},"modified":"2007-04-05T04:55:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T09:55:06","slug":"digital-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Digital Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by the idea of wearable digital badges that could be programmed with messages. There are some affordable packages like the <a title=\"MessageTags-Product-Details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.messagetags.com\/messagetags-product-details.htm\">MessageTag<\/a>  or Mtag. The question (before I buy one) is &#8230; just what would I program it to display?<\/p>\n<p>A related, but more sophisticated, product is <a title=\"nTAG Interactive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ntag.com\/\">nTAG<\/a> which is essentially a small screen others can read off your chest. It has RFID and infrared so nTAGs can communicate with each other (&#8220;Hi, I like vanilla ice cream too!&#8221;) or with a central server. The nTAG web site is coy about privacy and costs. I think they rent you the service and don&#8217;t sell the technology, which is a pity, as it would be interesting to imagine some playful uses. For a story about nTAG, see <a title=\"Boston.com \/ Business \/ Breaking the Ice 2.0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/globe\/articles\/2004\/11\/15\/breaking_the_ice_20\/\">Breaking the Ice 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by the idea of wearable digital badges that could be programmed with messages. There are some affordable packages like the MessageTag or Mtag. The question (before I buy one) is &#8230; just what would I program it to display? A related, but more sophisticated, product is nTAG which is essentially a small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=776\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital Badges<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playful-or-cool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}