Spime Watch: Tales of Things

*Makes me sorry I'm missing this FuturEverything gig. I woulda gone to Britain pronto, if they weren't so keen to repel foreigners by keenly tracking alien passports at the border. Some of those British excludees come from countries with histories.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18766-barcodes-help-objects-tell-their-stories.html

"Have you ever come across an unusual object and wanted to know its history? Soon you might simply be able to retrieve the details on your smartphone.

"That's...