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A Box With A Hidden Video Camera Documents Journey Through The Mail

Peter Murray
May 04, 2013
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[Source: Ruben van der Vleuten via Vimeo]

[Source: Ruben van der Vleuten via Vimeo]

Ever wondered what it was like to be a parcel? No? Silly you. Ruben van der Vleuten thinks you should know. So he’s made a video from a parcel’s point of view.

The inquisitive Industrial and Interaction designer had three questions about mail delivery:

What happens when you send something by mail?
What happens in between you sending it off and someone else receiving it?
What people and processes are involved and how many steps does it take?

Of course, he could probably get these answers through a series of interviews and internet searches. But instead, he placed a small camera in a box with an Arduino-run timer circuit to record a 3 second video each minute and longer videos while the box was being handled. And then he shipped it.

I like his method better, because now we have this really cool video to watch.

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[Source: Ruben van der Vleuten via Vimeo]

Peter Murray was born in Boston in 1973. He earned a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Maryland, Baltimore studying gene expression in the neocortex. Following his dissertation work he spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the same university studying brain mechanisms of pain and motor control. He completed a collection of short stories in 2010 and has been writing for Singularity Hub since March 2011.

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