Scientists are cribbing their ideas from Mr. Show, now! Whatever, I’d live in the House of the Future (by Menocu).

Assistant professors Robert Hancock and Becky Sue Parton have received a $360,000 grant from the Department of Education to develop their ”physical world hyperlinking” teaching system, a term used to describe the process of connecting digital data on a computer and real-world objects. The researchers are constructing an initial set of 500 objects with RFID tags that trigger a computer to respond with instructional content, such as a video of a human interpreter signing the word and several photos or other images of the object.