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'Pacemaker'-like GPS Device for Humans

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the here-i-am dept.

LunarFox writes "Applied Digital Solutions has announced successful field trials of a prototype GPS device that can be implanted into humans. The device, which is internally rechargable, can wirelessly transmit location, movements and vital signs via the Internet, storing the info in a database. It's said to be the size of a pacemaker, but they intend to miniaturize it to one-tenth that size. You may recall this company as having designed the 'Digital Angel,' and 'Verichip,' a ricegrain-sized RFID chip like injectable pet tracking ID chips. This same company apparently made several denials in 2002 that their product(s) would be anything but externally worn. (like a wristwatch) Many other related links can be found at WorldNetDaily." On one hand the potential cool uses astound me, while the possibilty of abuse frightens me. A lot.

5 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hello people, wake up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    . Oh, your phone is not turned on? Sok, no need for it to be on.

    you are so full of shit you stink.

    This is a bold-faced lie designed to only mislead.

    Sorry mister know-nothing... but a modern cellphone (or any cellphone for that matter) DOES NOT RADIATE ANY RF ENERGY WHEN THEY ARE TURNED OFF.

    sheesh, and no your TV is not watching you.

    Man I cannot believe the complete freaks and nuts out here....

  2. perfect for stopping terrorism! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just inject all Arab males coming into the United States with these puppies. After all, everyone knows that all terrorists are arabs.

  3. Re:Missing the boat by fireweaver · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have a much simpler solution. Kill child molesters. One strike and you're DEAD.

  4. Re:Cashless Society / 666 by fireweaver · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The reason you cannot read anything meaningful into that is that the whole thing is either bullshit or someone describing a very bad trip on some kind of hallucinogenic -- probably ergot fungus.

    Come to think of it, the whole fucking bible is bullshit. And the koran and talmud and all the rest of them.

  5. Re:Cashless Society / 666 by revscat · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hello,

    Please take your paranoid evangelical ramblings to the nearest psycho ward and seek professional help. The world is not out to get you, you are not important, there is no grand conspiracy, the "Left Behind" series was fiction, and drugged out Middle Easterners could not predict the future. This is not hyperbole, this is fact, and I can prove it to you on an Etch-a-Sketch.

    But -- of course -- I am just a foolish tool of the conspiracy, duped by Satan's minions and too stupid to see The Truth that is The Word. Of course.

    Weirdo.