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Get Ready For the High-tech Beach

Posted by samzenpus on from the natures-friends-electricity-and-water dept.

coondoggie writes "Ocean City, New Jersey is a nice, family-oriented beach that will apparently soon be the high-tech model for seashore lovers and now perhaps geeks everywhere. The city has on its plate a $3 million plan for myriad public services and Internet access using radio-frequency identification chips (RFID) and Wi-Fi wireless technology. A wireless network will let Ocean City expand economic development and control the cost of local services. Wireless allows the City to save on cell phone usage, T-1 lines, and it adds efficiency. The city is looking to replace its ubiquitous but mostly annoying beach tags — which indicate you paid to get on the beach $5 per day, $10 for a week, or $20 for the whole summer — with wristbands that contain an RFID chip. Yet another cool feature of the high-tech beach will be the ability to track beachgoers — an application that is being touted by parents."

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  1. Lick my balls, samzenpus! Almost KDAWSON material! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lick them clean. Slashdot sucks.

  2. HEY KDAWSON! Mod parent up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I *know* you modded gp down