'Snail Mail Gets Literal'

Saw a wonderful, quirky article on the fashion/technology page of Time magazine's August 4, 2008 issue. Some UK artists have attached radio frequency id tags (RFID) to the shells of what looks like garden snails, and people can send emails that are encoded onto the RFID of a snail at one end of its tank, and read later when the snail (ultimately) makes its way to the other end of the tank. Once read at that end the email is posted back on the internet.

(The information super snailway?...)