RFID Waves Visualized and Demystified Using a LED Wand

Two Oslo-based design researchers have created a visual model
of RFID fields in an effort to show curious designers how
RFID looks and works, and help shed light on its
functionality.

The project was carried out by Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall
as a collaboration between BERG, a British design consulting
firm, and Touch, a research project housed in the Oslo School
of Architecture and Design, with the express purpose to study
near-field communication and wireless proximity-based
technologies.

The video was created using a custom-created LED wand that
lights up whenever it is in the presence of an RFID field.
The collected images of the wand glowing at various points,
then created a composite animation with those pics, which
turns out looking like the atomic orbital 3d.

With this video, the Touch Project hopes to educate designers
about a technology they feel is generally misunderstood, and
inspire them to use RFID in creative new ways. They even
created a fancy new logo, which is based around the distinct
look of the RFID electromagnetic field.