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Mapping the Origins of Products

Posted by: Nate Berg

21 January 2010 - 1:00pm

GOOD introduces us to Sourcemap, a project from the MIT Media Lab that visually tracks the origins of the components that make up everyday products.

Sourcemap is an open-source project, meaning that the list of products it can currently map is relatively small. But that could change as the project builds steam.

"[I]magine that this does get built out with a few thousand common consumer products and then gets combined with a more sophisticated version of Google Goggles. You'd be able to source things with your phone from the store."

A video introduction explains the system.

Full Story: Sourcemap: Map Where Stuff Comes From
Source: Good, January 21, 2010
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