Track a Soda Can with GPS? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 30, 2003 @08:21AM from the drink-pepsi dept.

I am Kobayashi writes "According to the Indianapolis Star Online, next summer Coca-cola will feature a promotion in which winners will be located by satellites tracking GPS devices implanted in the winning cans.... Hopefully they track you fast before you throw-away (or recycle) your winning can...." And in another bit of Coke news, they've got a new high-tech billboard: jhkoh writes "Reuters/Yahoo is reporting that Coca-Cola has unveiled an 'intelligent' billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus -- at 99 feet wide, the world's biggest -- that supposedly will respond to weather, movement, and SMS text messages. The billboard itself is 52 square meters of LED display. How soon before someone hacks it?"

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Re:Geocaching by garcia · 2003-09-30 09:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

how about being brought to places by other people (that you would have never known otherwise) to find a cache that is full of wildlife?

I moved here last year (about 10 months ago). I have seen more of my area than people who have lived here their whole lives.

In fact, people come to me asking me where they should go camping, hiking, or exploring.

Does that better answer it?