{"id":429,"date":"2011-01-11T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-01-11T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T23:50:35","slug":"wee-nfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Wee NFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>WARNING. This post contains a lot of talk about the passing of urine and is generally quite crude but in an innovative and ultimately charming way.<\/p>\n

A few tweets have been pinging about today discussing the recent story of the new urinal games that Sega are trialling in Tokyo<\/a>. \u00a0These fantastic innovations in waste passing entertainment include such games as ‘Mannekin Pis’ a challenge to see how hard the urinal user can urinate. It then compares this to the\u00a0previous\u00a0urinal user to see who had the greatest velocity wee wee expulsion.<\/p>\n

This lovely announcement was picked up on by all round fine fellow, Gregory Povey, who commented that they had made his flippanc<\/a>y. \u00a0Greg was referring to a high brow discussion that Tim<\/a> and James<\/a> and I were lucky enough to be involved in, which took place in the summer of 2010.<\/p>\n

The porcelain based parlance followed a talk at the LoveBytes<\/a> event by Tobie Kerridge. Tobie talked about a project called Material Beliefs which amongst other things involved a prototype called Vital Signs<\/a> which was a live bio monitoring device. The device involved the adhesion of digital plasters to the patients body to monitor the heart, breath and movement.<\/p>\n

After the conference we retired to a local ale house<\/a> to discuss what we had seen and heard. \u00a0As the ale flowed we somehow got onto the topic of barely games. Now I don’t quite remember who (but I suspect it was me) mentioned urinal games i.e. the simplistic and usually advertising based, featuring such things as plastic football goals in the bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Greg took this a stage further discussing the digital opportunities around these liquid excretion based frivolities and the social gaming potential they\u00a0possessed. As the conversation flowed we stumbled back to the bio monitoring digital plasters. We also talked about Near Field Communication (NFC) and how the physical & digital world will become increasingly linked probably via the mobile. \u00a0I may have said something about these plasters being able to attach to certain appendages and to maybe measure effluence flow rate, bladder capacity vs pints drunk (a useful measure in the manly challenge of seeing who can go the longest during a drinking session without going to the toilet) and then connect to the phone via NFC and use the functionality of the device to submit this very useful data to the cloud, GPS locate the piddler and other such useful recordings and measurements. James summed this up a bit more succinctly in his tweet the day after, which I must protest is without context and paints me in a terrible light, maybe even more terrible than this post.<\/p>\n

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So there you have it the story of the NFC based penis plaster which when I tweeted about today<\/a> piqued quite a bit of interest from bemused tweeters. Emma Cooper asked if there was a ladies version. She then quickly tried to unask the question<\/a> but it was too late. \u00a0I think that it would be possible for ladies although the mechanics are more complex.\u00a0\u00a0I am also of the understanding that the female urinal is not quite a prevalent in society as the male version. \u00a0 Tony Kennick asked a quite crude question<\/a> but also a very valid one, about if there was\u00a0accompanying\u00a0technology that could be used for orifices to record check ins. \u00a0I suspect if the former invention were created the latter would surely follow.<\/p>\n

So that is that. \u00a0I have spent too much time thinking about this thing but enough people asked about it that I felt I had to explain myself. \u00a0I am not\u00a0sure\u00a0how accurate my recollection of the original discussion is, Bernard Premium Strength Lager is quite strong, so if James, Tim or Greg would like to add or amend any of the details then please let me know. \u00a0My final thought on the matter is the product name. The worse one I have come up with is iUrethra my favourite is Wee NFC. Any other product name suggestions greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING. This post contains a lot of talk about the passing of urine and is generally quite crude but in an innovative and ultimately charming way. A few tweets have been pinging about today discussing the recent story of the new urinal games that Sega are trialling in Tokyo. \u00a0These fantastic innovations in waste passing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ideas","category-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}