+Delta-S Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Check it out HERE. Never worry about leaving your GPS behind again. Applied Digital Solutions, a technology development company, yesterday said it has created and successfully field-tested a prototype of a GPS implant for humans. The dimensions of this initial "personal location device," or PLD, prototype are said to be 2.5 inches in diameter by 0.5 inches in depth, roughly the size of a pacemaker. Once inserted into a human, the device can be tracked by Global Positioning Satellite technology and the information relayed wirelessly to the Internet, where an individual's location, movements and vital signs can be stored in a database for future reference. [/quote Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Now you just need to attache it to a bio implanted bomb and you can keep people inside their assigned 'zone'. Something things should just be left alone. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+Team Sand Dollar Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Originally posted by Renegade Knight:Now you just need to attache it to a bio implanted bomb and you can keep people inside their assigned 'zone'. And then you get one of the moment when the GPS does one of those location shift placing the user just outside there zone. BOOM! .. One less CRIMINAL Team Sand Dollar Quote Link to comment
+TEAM 360 Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Now just WHO is gonna clean up this mess? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Team Sand Dollar:And then you get one of the moment when the GPS does one of those location shift placing the user just outside there zone. BOOM! .. One less CRIMINAL Team Sand Dollar We could call that the popcorn effect. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+Last Lap Gang Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 [From Mrs. Last Lap...] you all are sick... but I think it's a fantastic plan.... Boom! Cracks me up! Wags, Russ & Erin Quote Link to comment
Captain Chaoss Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 QUOTE we continue to pursue further enhancements, especially with regard to miniaturization and the power supply. We should be able to reduce the size of the device dramatically before the end of this year." Dang, at current size, I cant think of anywhere internal I wanna carry it, nor have it inserted ! Besides, the antenna hanging out would probably be a real social turn-off. Two roads diverged in the woods and I, I took the one less traveled, and that is how I found the cache. Quote Link to comment
Jamethiel Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Um, if it is implanted.... how big of an antenna does it have? I really don't want to walk into a windowless building and have my arm blown off. On the plus side, it could make solving multistep caches easier! Just wait until a implanted person has finished it and go to the location they spent the most time at while on the hunt. Hopefully that won't turn out to be the local Dennys. "Sorry honey, it seems he had diareaa today while hunting. Yes, we DO have to check every place he stopped! No, it wouldn't be easier to just figure out quadratic equations on my own." -Jennifer Age does not bring wisdom, but it does give perspective. Quote Link to comment
Enos Shenk Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Sounds big-brotherish to me [Episkipos Enos Shenk, KSC] [http://enos.deviantart.com] Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Enos Shenk, KSC:Sounds big-brotherish to me Yeah, my big brother used to try to blow off my arm too. He stopped when I got big enough to pick him up and throw him through walls. Quote Link to comment
+Brian - Team A.I. Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Captain Chaoss:QUOTE Dang, at current size, I cant think of anywhere internal I wanna carry it, nor have it inserted ! Besides, the antenna hanging out would probably be a real social turn-off. Is that a GPSr in your pocket? Brian Team A.I. Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 quote:One less CRIMINAL There is currently only one. http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/ Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight:Now you just need to attache it to a bio implanted bomb and you can keep people inside their assigned 'zone'. There's a really good bad movie with Christopher Lambert called "Fortress" which uses roughly the same concept to keep people where they're supposed to be within a prison. The devices are called "intestinators" IIRC. It was a pretty bad movie, but a great concept film. -- Random fortune: Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 quote:Originally posted by The Delta-S Family:Check it out http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32572 Never worry about leaving your GPS behind again. Even more disturbing is farther down in the article where it mentions "Moving towards a cachless society" There's another article about this here, and a sure-to-be-paranoid discussion about it on Slashdot here. - - - - - What are goosebumps for? To slow down the geese! Quote Link to comment
+ZingerHead Posted May 16, 2003 Share Posted May 16, 2003 This is great! Now we don't have to wander around with our arm extended studying a screen. Maybe we could just have a little earphone that would whisper "getter warm, warmer, getting really warm, colder...over THERE stupid..." Then we would just look like people hunting for cans in the weeds, and save ourselves the embarrassment of explaining that we actually spent several hundred dollars to hunt things in the weeds. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numbers, and those who don't. Quote Link to comment
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