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技术的创新与人的需求是什么关系？ 技术的创新推动人类社会的进步，而人的需求对技术的创新又提出了更多的要求，但创新的技术与人之间如何联系，那就是设计。设计关注的是技术的合理应用，它是连接技术与人的桥梁。RFID技术的价值早已被证实，那么如何扩大他的应用范围。本文就是RFID技术在生活中应用的一个原型的案例介绍，比较有意思。国外有许多专门针对某种技术的应用而展开的线上或线下的WORKSHOP，也称为Hackathon,台湾人翻译为黑客松，参与的人称为Hacker,找不到大陆的翻译，但我觉得类似于设计专业经常举办的WORKSHOP。不管叫什么，这个种方式非常有意思，对于工业设计人来说，就是把有价值的创意整个各种方式去实现出来。（译者语）

下文译文由任好好翻译，任好好校对，感谢翔子提供原文资料，切记需要翻Q。

DisplayCabinet is the output of 24 hours with Tim Burrell Saward and Dan Williams“connecting up our things to the web, our environments to our things, and our things to us” as part of the Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon.

DisplayCabinet 是一个以“连接互联网、环境、物品和我们自己”为主题的24小时短期开发活动的成果，另外两个合作者是Tim Burrell Saward 和 Dan Williams，这个主题活动也是Pachube Internet of Things Hackathon（Pachube物联网黑客松，一种短期快速开发模式）一部分。

What we did.我们做什么。

The aim of our project was to tackle turning data into information that’s easy to digest and act upon. We set out to avoid screens that draw focus and create a prototype “calm” projected display for the data created by, for and about the people, products and services that can be found in and around the home.

我们这个项目的主要目的就是把数据资料处理成人们易识别的和提示性的信息。我们不打算用显示屏而专注于“安静”的投影显示并制作出一个原型，这种投影会显示由家里的人、产品和服务所产生的数据信息。

How we did it.我们怎么做。

We embedded a group of inanimate ornamental objects with RFID tags. Totems or avatars that represent either people, products or services. We also added RFID tags to a set of house keys and a wallet. Functional things that you carry with you. This group of objects combine with a set of shelves containing a hidden projector and RFID reader to become DisplayCabinet.

我们给那些没有生气的装饰物件植入RFID标签。图腾或阿凡达（标志性的物品）代表了人、产品或某种服务。钥匙串和钱包也被贴上了RFID标签，RFID标签也可以添加到那些你随身携带的功能性物品。这些装有RFID标签的物件和一个装有隐藏式投影仪和RFID读取器的架子构成了DisplayCabinet.

How it works.它如何工作.

By default DisplayCabinet shows a small ring of light on the table below. When an object is placed into the ring it expands to show the information relevant to the thing they represent.

DisplayCabinet的初状态是投影在搁板上面的小光圈。当把一个物件放到这个小光圈中，周围一圈就会显示与此物件所代表的东西或人相关信息。

Your house keys become an overview for your home. Energy consumed, current cost of energy per day, broadband allowance used and simple weather. It also serves as the screen that displays any scheduled alerts or important information relating to other items on the shelf. The bins need to be emptied and Mr Cuddles, the household pet is out and there’s something wrong with the fridge.

你的钥匙串就是你家情况的基本概述。把它放到小光圈里，能显示家里的能量消耗、每天能量消耗的花费、宽带流量的使用情况和简单的天气预报。它也像显示屏一样显示一些计划好的提示信息或与搁板上物件相关的信息，如垃圾桶该倒了、宠物出去了和冰箱坏了的信息。

The fridge is showing that the temperature isn’t quite right and that the energy consumption is lower than usual. It’s also showing that the milk is low which could easily be based on the weight of the milk container in the fridge door. The message that the sausages go off tomorrow is really a hat tip to something that Chris Heathcote offered up recently in that services like Ocado print the sell by dates of the food you order on the receipt. This information is in a database somewhere so it’s no real stretch of the imagination to link that up to your fridge to create an internet fridge that doesn’t have a gigantic touch screen on the front of it.

把冰箱的模型放上去，显示冰箱温度不正常并且能量消耗低于往常，也会显示牛奶快喝完了，这个信息很容易通过冰箱门上牛奶盒的重量来得出来。信息显示香肠明天就要过期，说到这个，得感谢Chris Heathcote最近做的东西启发了我，它像Ocado的服务一样，会把食物的过期日期打印在购物小票上。显示冰箱的信息存储在数据库中，因此并没有真正的把冰箱（那种门上没有大屏幕显示的冰箱）与互联网连接起来。

Placing the little tube train on the table shows you the status of the tube lines…

把一辆玩具地铁放到上面时会显示地铁的相关信息状态。

and placing the bus on the table displays your local bus stops and the buses that are due to arrive.

把一辆玩具公共汽车放上去的时候会显示当地的公交站及要到达的公交车信息。

Your wallet could display data from your online bank and show your balance, income, outgoings and combine that with data from your Oyster. Total balance, journeys made, stations visited and total distance covered.

钱包放上去能显示你的网上银行的数据信息，包括你的余额、收入、支出以及兼具来自Oyster（一种卡）的数据信息，总的收支、行程安排、到过的站和总的里程数。

Totems for people could show the location of their last geotagged tweet, comment, photo or check-in and show feeds from their social networks, which in this case is Twitter.

代表人的玩偶能显示此人在网络上最近的地理标签、评论、照片或记录的位置，也能显示来自社交网络的订阅新闻推送内容，在此案例中应用的社交网络是Twitter。

Results 总结

It’s far from perfect but this is just the beginning. It’s sketching in hardware and I have a tiny confession to make. The information being displayed isn’t live but I really don’t think that matters because it’s very much an early prototype. A day one prototype even and the choices we made were based on actual data that could be taken from Pachube and other APIs. Given a bit more time, some additional hackery and a few asks this project would be pretty much fully functional.

I’m really happy that DisplayCabinet was received very well by the other hackers even though it’s a design hack and not a technical hack. It won a prize too. A GPRS router and a year of data courtesy of Arkessa! Not bad for your first hack day.

这个作品还远远不够完美，仅仅是个开始，它的硬件方面也比较简漏粗糙，但是我要对此做一个小小的总结。这个原型中显示的并非实时信息，但这个并不是什么大问题，因为目前只是个非常非常初期的原型。这个原型花了仅仅一天时间（24小时），我们做出这个选择也是基于真实的资料，这些资料都来自Pachube和其它的API。如果再有多一点时间，这个原型会更加的完美。

我真的很开心DisplayCabinet获得了许多同行的好评，虽然它偏向设计而非技术。它也获了奖，奖品就是一个GPRS路由器和Arkessa的一年免费数据流量。

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