Carrier Pigeons Go Digital: Are Slow-Motion Messages the Future?
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Two new apps, Carrier Pidge and Roost, simulate homing pigeons to deliver messages with distance-based delays. The piece critiques them as gimmicks and argues that traditional pigeon tech—raising and physically transferring birds—offers a richer, more authentic take on 'slow' messaging, even imagining a Tamagotchi-like pigeon-raising app that blends digital whimsy with real-world proximity (and recalls Winston the data-carrying pigeon).
- There Are Carrier Pigeon Apps Now Because Pigeon Technology Is Actually Superior Gizmodo
- Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon The New York Times
- These apps send texts at pigeon pace – and users are flocking USA Today
- Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph — LA to NYC correspondence takes 22 hours to deliver; virtual birds can get distracted or even lost Tom's Hardware
- I sent friends messages via carrier pigeon. My Roost review Yahoo News Canada
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