Yesterday I blogged about IP over Avian carrier, today I read an article about Real Snail Mail. This is one of the nerdorific ideas I've heard of in a while. The guy puts RFID tags on the backs of snails and has them pass by sensors that pick up and send messages. That sounds a little confusing, but here is a better description of it from the site.
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.
Here is a link to the BBC article in which I found this. One of my favorite parts of the site is you can read a little bit about each snail by going to their profiles and you can also view the snail cam. This is mollusk madness.
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