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Remember Me & RememberUs – TOTeM

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Following the success of RememberMe’s debut incarnation at FutureEverything 2010, TOTeM and Oxfam are joining forces to roll out the project an Internet of Old things nationally. To celebrate, RememberUs hits the Northern Quarter, hijacking Oxfam Emporium and Oxfam Originals on Oldham Street.

This time the team has set up two shops that act as supernatural portals to the Internet of Things. ‘Let go’ of the memories of your favourite things by attaching YouTube or Audioboo clips on to objects in the Oxfam Emporium, and moments later in the Oxfam Originals shop just down the street, people will ‘pick up’ your memory when it is re-associated with another ‘thing’ that they choose buy.

FutureEverything 2011

Remember Me & LettingGo/PickingUp submitted to FutureEverything

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Following the success of Remember Me’s debut incarnation at FutureEverything 2010, TOTeM and Oxfam are joining forces to roll out the project an Internet of Old things nationally. To celebrate, LettingGo/PickingUp
hits the Northern Quarter, hijacking Oxfam Emporium and Oxfam Originals on Oldham Street.

This time the team has set up two shops that act as supernatural portals to the Internet of Things. ‘Let go’ of the memories of your favourite things by attaching YouTube or Audioboo clips on to objects in the Oxfam Emporium, and moments later in the Oxfam Originals shop just down the street, people will ‘Pick up’ your memory when it is re-associated with another ‘thing’ that they choose buy.

The RememberMe and LettingGo/PickingUp project is powered by TOTeM tagging technology and uses the www.talesofthings.com website to allow anybody to attach a memory to a thing, and receive a unique printable tag that they can attach to the object.

RememberMe presented at FutureEverything 2010

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12 May – 15 May 2010, Oxfam, Manchester

The RememberMe artwork is a collaborative project with the Oxfam shop, near Contact Theatre. Leading up to FutureEverything, a research assistant will be based in the shop and recording brief stories about the donated objects into a microphone: where they acquired it, the memories attached and any associated stories. This audio clip will be linked to an RFID tag and QR code.

During FutureEeverything all tagged items will then join the shop’s stock. Customers, including conference delegates, will be invited to use our bespoke RFID readers, or their own smart phone to browse artifacts, displayed amongst the many thousands of other objects.

Once triggered, RememberMe labeled objects, will replay the story through speakers located in the shop, evoking ghosts of the past. Tagged objects will be in the public domain for purchase by other members of the community. Our iPhone and Android apps will allow them to access the story for years to come.

FutureEverything delegates are encouraged to bring something to the conference to donate to Oxfam, and to record a story with it.

The project is developed by the TOTeM project, a UKRC Digital Economy funded project to explore the social potential of the Internet of Things.

Visit: RememberMe, FutureEverything 2010
Watch: Video of RememberMe at FutureEverything