I just got a tikitag RFID reader. Tikitag will sell their betas starting from October the 1st. What they try to do is quite simple: provide everyone with an RFID reader and some tags, have the user install some software, and let him/her couple the unique RFID number to a service (e.g. open a browser with a specific url) through their site. As the tikitag reader software always connects to the tikitag website, I assume they hope to become the central point on the web linking RFID to information or ‘actions’.

Of course I don’t like third party platforms storing and tracking my information so I started scripting. I made a simple cube with an RFID tag on each side linked to the opening of a web browser with the sites I check in the morning – thus skipping the need to connect to tikitag.com to do local stuff.

If you want to try it out get your hands on a RFID reader (tikitag or not) and follow the instructions on Mediamatic’s page for interfacing with RFID. After that it is really simple to write a script to parse out the tag id and link it to an action yourself.