Just came across this in my RSS feed, snails delivering an email (for part of the way). What a genius, slightly strange idea, makes me wonder how someone can come up with the idea. To quote from their website:
Our snails are equipped with a miniaturised electronic circuit and antenna that enables them to be assigned messages from hardware located within their enclosure. The moment you click ‘send’ your message will travel at the speed of light to our snail server where it will await collection by a snail agent.
Once associated with the tiny electronic chip on the snails shell your message will be carried around until the snail chances by the drop off point. Hardware located at this point collects the message from the snail and forwards it to its final destination.
I’m quite looking forward to when the webcam goes live in August, may even follow the blog!
Dan
25th June 2008
3:27 pm
Hey Dan! Could you email me your new address once you’ve moved and settled in? I’m in Cheltenham until July 12th and then back in Oxfordshire, but my uni house (where I am ATM) is internetless for the moment, so I’m taking to letters again.
Hope the move goes well, say hi to Kita for me!! xxxxx