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Wozniak Unveils WozNet

Posted by simoniker on from the track-your-spare-tags-with-tags dept.

dki writes "Steve Wozniak's WozNet is covered in an article at the New York Times today. His company Wheels of Zeus, mentioned previously on Slashdot last year, plans to create wireless networks that use GPS to track clusters of electronic tags within a 1- or 2-mile radius of a base station. The tags "will be able to generate alerts, notifying the owner by phone or e-mail message when a child arrives at school, a dog leaves the yard or a car leaves the parking lot.""

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  1. Slashdotter Internal Conflict by mcc · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) this is really, really evil and scary. i'm terrified by the idea of parents implanting these in their kids feet or something when they're tiny and knowing everything they do from that point forward. i'm even more terrified by the idea of corporations requiring the same of their employees, since that's something that could concievably, in an imperfect world, happen to me. i'm scared of vigilantes and criminals and government agencies secretly doing this to people they are targetting, leading to scenes like the one in the elevator in Enemy of the State.

    2) But Steve Wozniak did this! Steve Wozniak is really cool and non-evil!

    **head explodes**

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  2. Re:where did I leave my keys? by swillden · · Score: 5, Funny

    my ETrex Vista GPS unit will track things down to 3 ft or so.

    I wish I'd had one of these things for tracking my eTrex Vista GPS unit, which I lost last week.

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