Route Fifty: Starting back in 2009, MIT’s SENSEable City Lab began to use tiny RFIDs to track individual pieces of trash, hoping to learn something useful about the journey of city waste. In New York City, a radio-emitting tag was attached to a plastic soap container, and in Seattle, an aluminum can. The SENSEable City Lab at MIT was also the developer of a clever, attachable disc called The Copenhagen Wheel which, when fitted to a bicycle, promised to collect data on road congestion, and the route preferences of individual bike riders.
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