Tagsu – The Digital Wondertag

I am here pretty shameless in promoting cool devices from people I somehow know. Here is one to all to the list of those  Tagsu – The Digital Wondertag. Tagsu is a wearable, programmable wondertag – that according to the inventors you should absolutely never, ever be without! Here is promotional video from Tagsu channel:

Introducing Tagsu the programmable, wearable #wondertag! page gives more details of the device.

Tagsu is a niche, one-of-a-kind, digital message tag, where you can load your own material and wear it (parties, tports events, networking event). When meeting new people at events, it can be awkward (especially for big IT gurus). The promise is: Wear a Tagsu and meet people like never before. Get noticed.

The Tagsu device basically consists of microcontroller (8-bit Atmel AVR CPU), LCD display (16 * 2 characters backlit blue) and battery. You can load your own text+graphics to it. You can open the on-line editor on the Tagsu.io website and upload the graphics to Tagsu audio cable form device you use to do your editing. The data is transmitted to Tagsu in audio format that sounds like old days modem signal or home computer data tape signal.

Tagsu – The Digital Wondertag is now in Indiegogo. It was invented by Jari Tulilahti from Rakettitiede.  Tagsu Inventor, Jari, developed the Tagsu after tinkering with the components for another project and testing how long a display would last with a single battery. This looks like a cool device, something I always wanted to build but never got the time to do… Basically this is not much more complicated than Arduino connected to display, some software and packed nicely.