GPS receivers now small enough to attach to literally anything
September 6, 2011
Telemetry Solutions of Concord, California, has developed a GPS receiver and data logger small enough to attach to tiny objects to track the location of anything from lost keys to a runaway pet, a Technology Review blog reports.
Data can be downloaded directly from the chip upon recapture, or it can be downloaded wirelessly from up to 500 meters away. The device has been attached to a fruit bat for research purposes.
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Comments (2)
by melajara
First, they devised a mandatory surgical procedure implanting the device in the sinus of each citizen. This was supposed to be the ultimate passport. But rogue physicians devised a way to substitute the devices for compromised but very wealthy citizens.
Next, they passed a law to have the device embedded within a 2 months old fetus. The device was so interwoven with the surrounding developing biological tissues that it was judged impossible to remove it from babies and even more from grown ups but nevertheless a very tedious surgical procedure doomed that scheme again.
Then they found a way to have the device completely distributed across all tissues by implementing a matrix binding to a gastrula and spreading across all tissues by attaching selectively to various kind of cell progenitors migrating across the developing fetus.
In a way the device was the body, an unbreakable scheme was born.
by Dizzle
When the nachines turn on me, I can’t even hide because my mother thought the gps implant was cool.
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