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I'd say finding a keeper works, but the LED's don't show up as well on my girlfriend (and for some reason, they would only show the >:( emoticon...)]]>Apr 24th 2006 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/Apr 24th 2006 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/Apr 24th 2006 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/Apr 24th 2006 2:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/Apr 24th 2006 2:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/
I'm in the same program that those students are in and it really isn't as easy as it looks. We are taught to think and not create pretty designer things that have all these crazy functionalities and they don't work.

Congratualations to those six women for developing a great porfolio piece that is getting international recognition. The process is what will get them hired, not the bag.]]>Apr 24th 2006 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/Check out this way cooler project from MIT.

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~nanda/design/electronics/byob/byob.html]]>Apr 24th 2006 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/Apr 24th 2006 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/24/the-ladybag-remembers-your-stuff-with-rfid/
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I wouldn't even say it's the same technology, they definitely have similarities, but it's about building ideas from existing ideas and improving or branching into other ideas, or even finding new uses/functions for existing things already. How often are you going to come up with an idea that's completely original anyway? Most likely there's probably someone else in the world who's already building something like it or thought of something like it before. It’s about how you present something and what you do with an idea that really counts!

Of course there would be similarities between this Ladybag prototype and other projects out there like bYOB, especially on the surface, but come one now…. you don’t have the whole story, you don’t know what process this team went through, and how could you possibly understand what any of these projects are about with such little information that you have. It’s all about the thought and design process behind this project. Sure, there are physical similarities, but considering that this team was given a problem and asked to try and find a solution within a certain amount of time, I congratulate them on how they approached it, and how they tried to apply the technology to some common product.

Also, another thing... they did pay for everything out of their own pockets to produce the bag (or borrowed equipment as well) and you should all keep in mind, it was just a PROTOTYPE to demonstrate the technology, not necessarily something meant to be the most aesthetically pleasing. Really, it’s not like they ever thought that people would be so interested in their prototype/idea of the Ladybag.

Honestly, considering that they’re all full time university students and have many other courses and projects to work on as well, all they were thinking at the time they were doing this project was that they wanted to make something fun, useful and related to them, and hopefully do well in the course. It’s not like they anticipated all this attention. You can’t really compare what they’ve produced to something produced by probably someone else who’s an expert that goes to MIT either. These girls worked as hard as they did with the limited amount of experience/knowledge that they had on electronics, and I think that was totally ambitious of them to try. They deserve the recognition that they are receiving!

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