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 > > 1. http://www.ecogito.net/anil 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