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44 Christiane Posch/Design Products gestural interfaces Digital information on our credit cards, PDAs, mobile phones and CD-players forms invisible layers of information about us. Using these edata aurasf, wireless networks can be created between people whose common ground is that they are in the same physical space, rather than grouping by age, gender or ability. As well as drawing on the new technologies of Bluetooth TM and fourth generation mobile phones, the more fundamental language of egesturesf is used as part of the interfacing. This service can be used to share any type of data such as music files, link people of the same interests, or just share a edigital flowerf with the person walking past.

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