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Webmail Service Using Live Snails
Tags: Is your Internet as of late moving at a snail’s pace? It may be more fact than fiction! A project set to demo at Siggraph 2008 later this summer has fitted snails with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website.
Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at 0.03mph (0.05km/h) and could take days, weeks or even months to arrive.
It is part of a “slow art” project called Real Snail Mail at Bournemouth University in the UK which will be showcased in Los Angeles in August.
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Each snail is fitted with a tiny capsule which holds a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip. RFID allows objects to communicate over short distances.
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”.
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