Company Designs "Big Brother Chip"

Taco Cowboy writes "Here comes a chip that can pinpoint you in-door and out, it can even tell others on which floor of a building you are located. It's the Broadcom 4752 chip. It takes signals from global navigation satellites, cell phone towers, and Wi-Fi hot spots, coupled with input from gyroscopes, accelerometers, step counters, and altimeters The company calls abilities like this 'ubiquitous navigation,' and the idea is that it will enable a new kind of e-commerce predicated on the fact that shopkeepers will know the moment you walk by their front door, or when you are looking at a particular product, and can offer you coupons at that instant."

Comments

Living in the past much?

[Anonymous Coward]

We have 2012. Only retards leave their house to do shopping.

The whole idea of
1) taking a shower
2) getting dressed
3) putting shoes on
4) driving a bike, car, tram
5) get into a shop
6) chose from the little they have to offer
7) standing in line
8) paying for the products you chose
9) leaving shop
10) getting home
11) shit doesn't work
12) back to 4).. ...is like.. the past, dude..

education is expensive... so we better tag stupid people with chips.. because we want to know where they are and what they are doing...