• Here is my summarization of the UbER - Badge I learn from its homepage.

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  • UbER - Badge is a platform to develop powerful platform for developing new application in person to person event interaction.

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  • The design of UbER - Badge takes from various successful badges made by MIT Media Lab.
    • 1997's Thinking Tags.
    • 1998's Meme Tag.

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  • The UbER - Badge has IR and RF connection.
  • This badge will be used to explore multihop "viral" message paging and passing.
  • There is a gradient based people locater.
  • Also passive accumulation of interest of the badge wearer.

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  • This badge is equipped by multiple communication channels.
  • This badge is equipped with a radio transceiver for random access and broadcast communication.
  • The IR (infrared) is used for line of sight detection.

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  • The badge is equipped with microphone.
  • The badge also has decent volatile memory to log activity.
  • More over this badge is easily to be hacked because it has a modular circuit.

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  • The display of this badge is meant to be seen from several meters away.
  • The design of the badge should be as ubiquitous as possible to that the wearer can focus on the conversation and not into the technological aspect of the badge itself.

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  • The display element can be independently addressed to allow to present information such as these
    • Graph.
    • Simple alpha numeric.
    • Simple graphical structure.

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  • This badge uses Texas Instrument micro controller.

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  • There is this chip for RF communications.

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  • There is also component to do IR communications.

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  • Additional/sensory modules.
    • 3 ways navigator switch.
    • Audio input.
    • Audio output.
    • DataFlash memory up to 256 MB.
    • LCD.
    • Microphone.
    • Motor vibrator.
    • RS232 for data acquisition.
    • Stack connection (I think this is made to connect to their measurement unit).

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  • The applications of UbER - Badge.
    • Analytic of social networking means to create something like networked diagram for people in social meeting, ....
    • Formation of affinity groups means to track an individual and then that individual's group so that the clustering within the community can be known.
    • Location of individuals means to track individuals (like last time they are spotted by the badge).
    • Viral message passing means to transfer message from badge to badge until they are arrived at their destination.

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  • The applications of UbER - Badge.
    • As a wearable electronics.
    • Real time display of social interaction.
    • Real time information visualizations.
    • Storing contacts.

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  • UbER - Badge presentation.

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  • UbER - Badge official research paper.

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  • Developer guide for UbER - Badge.
  • As you can see within the document the price (at that time) for just the micro controller is around 99 US Dollars.

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  • UbER - Badge project proposal.