Three snails, traveling at a blazing speed of 0.03 miles per hour, deliver 14 electronic messages.
Yes, this is snail mail in the digital age. Oh, the irony. We take for granted that we could use the web to deliver snail mail to far corners of the earth that have no internet access. But this experiment delivers web-mail on the back of snails! Meaning, you could log onto the RealSnailProject website, and type in an email to someone, and the web server delivers your email to the snail fitted with a RFID chip. The 'mail forwarding' then takes place as the snail moves around and comes into contact with an RFID reader, which picks up your email and send it onward.
For the rest of us who suffer near-death experiences when there's a Blackberry blackout, there's a sobering takeaway about this slowed down delivery. It is part of 'slow art'.
The three snails, in keeping with a MySpace era, have 'profiles.' What's next, a snailcast?
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