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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[That would be 'ars artis gratia', if you want the Latin to be correct.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[How's that work? Latin uses inflection, not word order, to determine meaning. To translate: ars, nominative and thus the subject of the sentence, 'art'; gratia, ablative and so in this case probably 'for', 'favor' but in this case probably closer to 'sake'; artis, genitive which denotes possession, 'art' once more. Thus, 'art for the sake of art,' and it remains so no matter how you shift the words around.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ZaphodB]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[That is interesting, I don't really buy art but it would be nice to have something like that at other stores, Best Buy, CompUSA]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atok Koenig]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why can't they just put a little piece of paper next to the piece displaying the price?  Every art gallery I've ever been to does it that way.  Seems unnecessary to waste money on a handheld/system, but maybe there's something I'm missing?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Blurrz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[The gallery that uses it:<br>http://www.granitestatemetalworks.com/gallery.shtml<br>What Terrible, crappy amateur art.<br>The Delly axim is worth more than the art]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RobERT]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[That last comment about the Latin is incorrect.  The construction used is indeed one of the few that relies on word order.  The genitive *followed* by either 'causa' or 'gratia' indicates a translation 'for the sake of...'  This is not the only instance where word order in Latin matters; for instance, the relative phrase must always *follow* the relative pronoun, and prepositions phrases must always *follow* the preposition, subordinate clauses must always *follow* their subordinator.  This is simply one of those times.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[Actually, getting people to talk to the gallery staff is the whole point of not having prices on the work (well that and it is just down right snooty). It gives the gallery staff an opening to start a dialog as to why they should buy. Not to mention, it is easier to change the price based on what the customer has on his/her feet. But, back when I owned a gallery, I always had the price on the work because I did not want to be a snooty SOB or use any cheap sales tricks. But that's me, just a regular SOB.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gallery3]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[How long 'til you can stand in the art gallery with your axim, call up the information about the work that you're interested in, and then pay for the piece over a wireless connection with your platinum amex, all without talking to a person at all?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jrfj44]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[The subject of the price of the piece is a tiny element of the Art-FID system. The goal is to make people feel comfortable by putting the tools to ask the major questions in their hands. The system will tell you about the piece, its medium, style, the artist's background and can be a mechanism to hav ethe artist speak directly to the customer about the piece directly, through audio and video.<br><br>We built this to engage visitors who ordinarily dont know what to ask or prefer not to ask preliminary things about a piece for fear of being pressured or revealing what they dont know about art. <br><br>Gallery owners can include the price or not in the system the same way they decide if the price should appear on the placard.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Zammuto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[It would be interesting if the customer could provide feedback on the artwork (with comments filtered by the gallery owner), although this might be more appropriate in a museum.<br><br>I suppose a bidding system could be set up as well.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex de Carvalho]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on ]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/04/29/art-gallery-uses-rfid-to-convert-visitors-to-customers/</guid><description><![CDATA[Here is an update on the product. It won Best in Show at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner COnference in Minneapolis this year in the small business division, a show with 1800 companies competing. Also, The Crafts Report named it one of "5 Gadgets Your Business Can't Live Without"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Zammuto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 1:20AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
