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# Trace Encounters
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/trace-encounters/
- Published: 2004-09-10T17:51:22.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-28T16:29:41.000Z
- Description: Trace Encounters is a social network technology that debuted at the Ars Electronica festival last week. One-thousand infrared-enabled…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Trace Encounters is a social network technology that debuted at the Ars Electronica festival last week. One-thousand infrared-enabled stickpins were distributed to attendees. The pins "remembered" the unique identifier of every other pin that comes into range. When the wearer walked past a central display, his or her data was downloaded into a PC that generated a visualization of the entire network.   
  
  
![](http://gallery.proteinos.com/album_pic.php?pic_id=1298)

Nice idea.