• Here is my review of Active Badge that was built by Olivetti Research in late 80's (around 1990).
  • The website of Olivetti Research, http://www.olivetti.it/. However, this is different than the Olivetti Research. The Olivetti Research went and built Olivetti, I assume this was because later Olivetti Research became AT&T Laboratories.

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  • This is the image of the Active Badge.
  • It looks pretty neat actually.

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  • The badge was used to unlock an office building.

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  • There was this UNIX finger protocol that gives out the Active Badge location (?).

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  • People stopped using this badge once they have mobile phone.

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  • This article was created on 2000. This is like 10 years after active badge was released.
  • Does this infer that Active Badge has 10 years life span?
  • Here is the link to the article, http://koo.corpus.cam.ac.uk/projects/badges/.
  • Here is the full screenshot of the tutorial.

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