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- badqat, on 02/13/2009, -2/+41Skynet will need a way to keep track of us, so this is a boon for progress!
- XkenX87, on 02/13/2009, -1/+27 This scares me a bit.
- freezerburn666, on 02/13/2009, -1/+17yeah if they like tracking sewage pipes......
- marklestrange, on 02/13/2009, -0/+13""Assisted-GPS"" is the key phrase here.
It means it has to be in a phone (or cell/mobile equipped device) to 'tie down' the signal it receives. - one504, on 02/13/2009, -0/+1025% is a pretty big deal at this scale. The "smaller than" that they are talking about is the Broadcom BCM4750 which is 3.6mm square, in WLBGA die form. Broadcom has a head start and I'm betting that the BCM4750 is cheaper because it is made on an older 90nm process (the XPOSYS uses a 65nm process), but having two technologies vying to win this space can only be good news for consumers and the location-aware device concept.
- Zippo, on 02/13/2009, -0/+10Will a chip that small be able to get a good signal? I can see this thing have trouble picking up the satellites in your pocket, let alone inside a building.
But hey, I'm probably wrong... which is good. - ThePDW, on 02/13/2009, -2/+11OMFG here come the Mark of the Beast!
- normalkid0615, on 02/13/2009, -0/+9seriously, not a joke anymore.
- bwhite, on 02/13/2009, -2/+11While "everything" being location aware isn't good, there are certainly things that I would want this for. Especially items that are typically stolen or popular with thieves.
- nomadxx7, on 02/13/2009, -1/+7You know at this very moment that have a transmitter the size of rice that can detect vehicle and soldier movement? I think it was in Popular Science about "futuristic" weapons that we already have. The premise of this transmitter was that a plane could literally blanket an area with these rice size transmitters and if there was any movement around the transmitters they could "sense" the vehicles/soldiers. Also by triangulating the movement they could pinpoint where on the battlefield these soldiers/vehicles were.
Just food for thought. - connieLingus, on 02/13/2009, -3/+7and this is progress?? like The Corpracracy doesn't already track us enough.
orwell was right, he just got "Big Brother" wrong...its not the goverment that is spying on us its all the corporations who track our every habit and peer into our backgrounds whenever possible. - chriswastaken, on 10/27/2009, -0/+4Dugg for being informative.
- DirtyVicar, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4Bingo. Power and wealth these days is in the business sector. "Big government" is a boogeyman largely shored up by pro-business folks. If government was gone you might as well say goodbye to some of the protections we have against corporate interests. We'd see the return of debtor prisons (no doubt run by CCA to boost earnings), maxed out "tort reform" where an individual can't get any justice when wronged by well-financed corporations, runaway patent abuse, predatory behavior against home businesses and startups, and a slew of real environmental damage. I don't want my basic rights trampled and I want government the hell off my property, and the same goes for corporate interests too; they shouldn't be given an inch.
- TheScreamer, on 02/13/2009, -0/+3It's just my guess, but while the processing chip may be small, it may require a substantial antenna connected to it. Just a theory. Kinda like the mini cameras that require massive (comparatively speaking) RCA/component cables attached to them.
- hove, on 02/13/2009, -0/+3So you can find a light when you need it?
- spar303, on 02/13/2009, -0/+3Its a double edged sword though, if people figure out how to hack/access your child's chip it could be used for evil as well.
- madformadness, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4Scary much?
- P5ycHo, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4Good thing the GPS&GSM blockers market is starting to take off....
- sHockz, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4another step in the wrong direction
- hove, on 02/13/2009, -1/+4Dugg for informing me that the previous post was informative.
- JKap, on 02/15/2009, -0/+3I wonder if they're getting any 'stimulus' money.
- bjwest, on 02/14/2009, -0/+3wjlaw100 - Yes it does.
NeoTechni - If a device knows where it is, it can take actions accordingly. How about a cell phone going into vibrate automatically mode when you enter a theater or restaurant? No need to let the owner know. - glasnostic, on 02/13/2009, -2/+4i don't know man.. it scares me a bit too, but i know i would put on on my kid in a heartbeat.
the second some kid it saved from a brutal murder by one of these, the company making them will have a 1000% jump in stock value.
come to think of it..
i might just buy me some stock for just that occasion. - wjlaw100, on 02/13/2009, -1/+3Hmmmm Isn't this a Receiver chip. To broadcase the location of ANYTHING you need to transmit the coords to something.... so The title is not accurate, and unless you drop some type of transmitter onto something, all you can tell is where you are at.
- dusanmal, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Thieves who would know how to quickly dispatch it... This is not good period.
- spar303, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Also the thieves could use this to see if anyone has something expensive on the subway for example...
- P5ycHo, on 02/13/2009, -4/+6Why? Planning on killing a kid?
- ramsinks.com, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2You joke, but conceiving this 2K years ago.. isn't an accident.
good luck with a chip.
(o, they just found out the battery is charged via heat in the body. But when it bursts, it leaves a boil.
hello, hello?? ) - patrickrhoward, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2***** letting the government chip all of us...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7se4gFTCys - inactive, on 02/13/2009, -3/+5Small enough to eat.. the government wouldn't even have to inject us just put it on our food.
- unomeasjon, on 02/13/2009, -1/+3The beginning of the end.
- superjack000, on 02/14/2009, -0/+2Scary stuff
- normalkid0615, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Police- We are tracking his movement, first he was in the kitchen for an hour, then the living room for an hour, then he seems to have taken refuge in some small room on the second floor. Zoom in, wait, zoom out zoom out!!!
- connieLingus, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2believe it or not i totally agree with you, but i have been around enough years to know how the "real world" works, and like it or not the day one case happens where someone who should have been incarcerated kills someone, the mainstream media and MADD-types would make sure politically it could never happen again.
why do you think drugs are still illegal?? it's 100% due to busybody groups who terrify politicians into even considering de-criminalization legislation. - Carlix, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2This tool could go to the wrong hands,
Paid murderers will be able to locate victims easier,
Easier to kidnap...
They know where you are..
etc.. - VeritasAequitas, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2You voted for McCain didn't you?
- VeritasAequitas, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2So Battlefield frontment and scouts are going to have to carry some type of EM Pulse generating device? For every advance in technology there will always be a way found to make it less of an advantage. Just give it time.
- rheaume, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2They do have something like this but its large... My kid will have one as well
- bjwest, on 02/13/2009, -1/+3Do you have to tell someone where you are before you know where you are? No, didn't think so. A device need only know where it is to know where it is. Title is accurate.
- inactive, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2way to be an ass.
- YuanHao, on 02/13/2009, -0/+2Normal GPS devices with decent a antenna don't have a good (if any) reception inside any type of building anyway.
- inactive, on 02/18/2009, -0/+2Rev 13:16
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
Rev 13:17
and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[fn6] the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
This is no laughing matter. This specific device might not be the one, then again it might, but it is certainly a bold stop in that direction. Here is what those of us who will not go along with the plan have in store.
http://christianpatriottrumpet.blogspot.com/2009/0 ...
http://firstamendmentuninhibited.blogspot.com/2009 ... - 01arkone, on 02/13/2009, -1/+2Oh no. Now they'll know where I am.
Who am I kidding.
These guys know where I am going to BE. - DevSingh1359, on 02/13/2009, -0/+1Only a matter of time before our computers, cell phones, iPods and television sets become self aware and kill us all.
- nicheweapons, on 02/14/2009, -0/+1skynet - pee my pants.
- eternal464, on 02/17/2009, -0/+1obama and damn proud of it.
- NeoTechni, on 02/13/2009, -1/+2"I mean look at potheads "
My mom rented out a house to some people who turned it into a grow-op, it cost her $30,000 to fix the damages they did.
Potheads are not harmless, they are criminals. And they certainly aren't non-violent. - swiftheart, on 02/13/2009, -0/+1I've been wanting this for one thing that gets stolen a lot.
Political yard signs. I was a candidate in November, and while the loss of a yard sign is pretty minor, I would love to know who was stealing them. - chriswastaken, on 10/27/2009, -1/+2Gov't didn't make it, Epson did.
- Solkre, on 02/13/2009, -0/+1The next cool thing Verizon will disable in my cellphone!
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