A URL for physical objects, how cool is that!

Can physical objects be referenced by the web, giving them a Universal Resource Locator for the real world? I think this is doable, done but not popular... Any ideas? No not an inventory.... much more.

Steve

Our goal is a bridge between the World Wide Web and the physical world we inhabit. 
This bridge includes the ability to interact with devices such as printers from a browser using standard HTTP communication. It also includes the ability to provide people, places and things -- electronic or otherwise -- with a web resource that is used to store information about them and which is automatically correlated with their physical presence. 

• What Physical URLS Mean: Web Presence

• www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2001/HPL-2001-279.pdf
• Persistent Uniform Resource Locator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• CiteSeerX — People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World

Related theories:

• crossref.org
• DOI Factsheets
• LSID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Info URI scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia