Above is “A Graphic Language For Touch” (Timo Arnall, 2005) which hopes to visually represent different interactions between information and physical objects or spaces. Using a universal set of symbols would be ideal, except the technologies are not yet standardized. If RFID were to become mainstream, imagine one of these graphics placed on an in-store object or in a taxi cab.

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