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'Pacemaker'-like GPS Device for Humans
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.
1. kidnap victim
2. operate on victim to remove tracking device
3. ask ransom
etc..
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
we're actually building a location based game you can play through a regular web browser right now, so i guess this tech will give us a bunch of NPCs?
- that guy
p.s.: first?
So where do I get my "career chip"?? :-P
"Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far
Interesting how this is posted hours after How to Fake a Hard Day at the Office [/.]. Just when we thought we had outsmarted them...
I'll take it, but only with an extension module: I want to run my own webserver inside myself. Must be a chilling experience to personally get DoSed.
Military? Are you saying the alien abductions and implants left in the abductees are connected to secret programs run by the US Military? Using timeshared UFO technology? That's ridiculous, Mulder.
finding where grandma wandered off to!
...vividly encapsulates that post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of all yourself.
>What the hell is a "high-risk" country
America of course! After all, if a third world two bit one camel country like Iraq is a serious threat, so is half of the rest of the world.
And don't forget the French!
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I want an interface. If I get lost, I want to be able to use it. I'm not interested if Joe Schmoe can find me if I can't find myself...
Then again, it would be a great device for tracking the elderly when they wander off in a fog. I have an ancient and venerable mother whose hippocampus and therefore her ability to process short-term memory is "flambayed".
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Cool use: Ability to keep track of your girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other.
Frightening abuse: Your girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other keeping track of you.
[insert witty quote here]
A worried crowd gathers on Main Street:
Dr. Watson here! Make way people... out of the way... I'm a doctor! Turn him over and let me look at him. MY GOD!!! Look at his skin color. This man's has a pacemaker BSOD! Quick, shove that LILO floppy down his throat while I hold his mouth open!
Cleaning out horse stables? It seems to come naturally to me after being laid off from the Trustworthy Computing Project...
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