Intelligent bookshelf keeps track of your media

Two rather clever gentlemen from the Netherlands have created a new system of tagging and tracking books, DVDs, or various other media that will undoubtedly find its way into libraries and businesses in no time at all. The program works by utilizing small RFID tags placed inside of books, and an array of sensors attached to the shelves. The data concerning an item's movement on or off the shelf, as well as the its position when not in use is then communicated to a terminal, providing the means of locating not just whether a piece of media is available, but its exact physical location. No word on when or how this will be made available, but for those of us with large book collections, we wait with bated breath. Check the demonstration video after the break.

[jilie @ Jul 4th 2007 10:14AM]

isn't the picture a bit too much stretched? you done it on a mac?

[R @ Jul 4th 2007 10:34AM]

No, that dude's been taking "Alli!"

[John @ Jul 4th 2007 10:42AM]

Oh wow, Delicious Library 2.0?

[Josh @ Jul 4th 2007 11:00AM]

That's what I thought too at first, until I realized it relied on having RFID tags on all your books instead of just using the ubiquitous barcodes.

[servant74 @ Jul 4th 2007 10:52AM]

How to roll your own was documented in the book from ExtremeTech book called RFID Toys by Amal Graafstra starting on Page 133. ISBN 0-471-77196-1 published by Wiley ... It would be nice if this is a product that someone could pick up at Ikea or Wal-Mart too. :)

[Gil @ Jul 4th 2007 10:52AM]

It's been done before. A local library had a system like this in place 3 years ago.

[Billy Bob @ Jul 4th 2007 11:01AM]

i totally had this idea when i was like, 5

[m @ Jul 4th 2007 4:02PM]

um... i have this, too... i invented it... i invented it when i was 1 year old... so yeah... it's pretty cool... also i live in a treehouse...

[John Doe @ Jul 4th 2007 4:05PM]

retard.... i said i had this idea, of somehow tracking where all my books were, not actually inventing it. you people on teh intarnetz can be so stupid sometimes

[Zach @ Jul 4th 2007 1:46PM]

One of many research projects meant to track everyday objects with RFID tags...hardly noteworthy.

Go poke around in scholarly publications (ACM CHI, UIST, Intelligent UI, Hypertext, etc.), and I'm sure you'll find more than a dozen such systems dating back over a decade.
-Z

[Vinay @ Jul 5th 2007 12:55AM]

That 'dude' on the left, in the pink shirt, has very feminine man-boobs, lol!

[Martijn @ Jul 5th 2007 5:44AM]

I am the person that shot this video on behalf of Fresh Creation (www.freshcreation.nl). The intelligent bookshelf demo is made by Willem and Walter as part of their graduation assignment at Working Tomorrow (www.workingtomorrow.nl), the graduation program of LogicaCMG (www.logicacmg.nl) in Holland.

@Joshua Topolsky: Would be nice if you'd add this info to the article.

[rudi @ Jul 6th 2007 3:32AM]

http://www.nedapeasi.com/nls/pdf/LS%20Brochure%20Intelligent%20Bookcase%20v0.05%20UK.pdf