Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1547234 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-05-29 16:07:00 from the finally-i-have-to-ask-why dept. [1]Anil Kandangath writes "A Japanese firm has shown off new technology that enables GPS units to be embedded [2]in clothing that will enable the wearer to be tracked continuously. The device is thin enough to be tacked on unobtrusively and is powered by a thin watch battery. It is also capable of taking biometric measurements and [3]transmitting them PCs and handheld devices. Though marketed as a device to enable people to keep track of spouses, how long before such technology becomes intrusive in our lives?" Like tracking your spouse is ok?. What a world! References 1. http://www.ecogito.net/anil 2. http://forgetmenotpanties.contagiousmedia.org/ 3. http://forgetmenotpanties.contagiousmedia.org/sensatech.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
On 2005-05-29T18:46:43+0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1547234 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-05-29 16:07:00
from the finally-i-have-to-ask-why dept. [1]Anil Kandangath writes "A Japanese firm has shown off new technology that enables GPS units to be embedded [2]in clothing that will enable the wearer to be tracked continuously. The device is thin enough to be tacked on unobtrusively and is powered by a thin watch battery.
As opposed to a thick watch battery?
It is also capable of taking biometric measurements and [3]transmitting them PCs and handheld devices.
Is that english? I don't think the device transmits PCs and handheld devices to biometric measurements.
Though marketed as a device to enable people to keep track of spouses, how long before such technology becomes intrusive in our lives?" Like tracking your spouse is ok?. What a world!
I know that isn't english, and it's only marginally coherent. I would much rather read a summary written by someone literate.
References
I don't see it.
2. http://forgetmenotpanties.contagiousmedia.org/ 3. http://forgetmenotpanties.contagiousmedia.org/sensatech.html
Uh huh. This looks like a joke or a scam. Even if it's not, I have a hard time believing that a girlfriend/wife/daughter is not going to notice that in her panties, and I doubt sufficiently miniaturized GPS receivers could be made for so little money. Perhaps that's why Anil seems to have removed the entry in his blog? Do you now understand why I hate redistribution of slashdot stories? -- Unable to correct the source of the indignity to the Negro, [the Phoenix, AZ public accommodations law prohibiting racial discrimination] redresses the situation by placing a separate indignity on the proprietor. ... The unwanted customer and the disliked proprietor are left glowering at one another across the lunch counter. -William "Strom" Rehnquist, 1964-06-15
ahhhh but check out the parent website, contagious media (http://contagiousmedia.org/). the site is a hoax :) --lucy On 5/29/05, Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/29/1547234 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-05-29 16:07:00
from the finally-i-have-to-ask-why dept. [1]Anil Kandangath writes "A Japanese firm has shown off new technology that enables GPS units to be embedded [2]in clothing that will enable the wearer to be tracked continuously. The device is thin enough to be tacked on unobtrusively and is powered by a thin watch battery. It is also capable of taking biometric measurements and [3]transmitting them PCs and handheld devices. Though marketed as a device to enable people to keep track of spouses, how long before such technology becomes intrusive in our lives?" Like tracking your spouse is ok?. What a world!
References
1. http://www.ecogito.net/anil 2. http://forgetmenotpanties.contagiousmedia.org/ 3. http://forgetmenotpanties.contagiousmedia.org/sensatech.html
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