A Project For Red Bull:
A message-in-a-bottle is one of the oldest and most romantic forms of long distance communication. The thought of one's message floating in a vast ocean with an unknown fate is one of intrigue. Using a cellular module, GPS, LCD display and an Arduino, we have given new life to an old idea.
Our digital age message-in-a-bottle receives text messages from anywhere in the world, scrolling the messages across its display. Once received, the bottle rebroadcasts these messages adding GPS coordinates to the data. These messages and locations are logged on twitter.com and from there, periodically copied to TextTheBottle.com for all to follow.