Mitch Wagner sez, "uGrokIt lets people attach RFID tags to their stuff, locate it with a device that attaches to a smartphone, just like in Cory's Makers." The Geiger counter-style audio cues are a nice touch, and I like the salaryman who uses the gizmo to remind him that he's left his phone-charger under one of those pointless stand-up cards next to the nearly pointless land-line phone in his hotel room.

UGrokIt (Thanks, Mitch!) ]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/03/09/rfid-your-stuff-find-it-with.html/feed 20 http://boingboing.net/2011/10/27/microbial-home-fuelling-the-kitchen-with-methane-from-waste.html http://boingboing.net/2011/10/27/microbial-home-fuelling-the-kitchen-with-methane-from-waste.html#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:27:10 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=126331
This concept design for a "microbial home" centered around a methane digester hub that feeds gas from your food into various appliances has a nice, bodgy, Rube Goldberg feel. We can call it methanepunk (not perfect, but better than "fartpunk").

The Microbial Home is viewed as a cyclical biological machine where wastes like sewage, effluent, garbage, wastewater are filtered, processed and recycled to be used as inputs for the various home functions. The project includes various aspects like a Bio Digester Island and Larder in the kitchen, Urban Beehive, Bio-light, Apothecary, Filtering Squatting Toilet and Paternoster Plastic Waste Up-cycler.