GPS-tracked Clothing 192
Anil Kandangath writes "A Japanese firm has shown off new technology that enables GPS units to be embedded 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 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! Update: 05/29 18:00 GMT by Z : Not actually real. A Contagious Media project. Please do not try to monitor your SO's panties.
When will the public revolt about issues like this (Score:1)
(A) Real privacy laws with shark's teeth to enforce them.
or (B) A completely transparent society where everything is public -- including our corporate master's finance books and the data of the wealthy elites?
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:3, Insightful)
- this story smells like a hoax: basic drawings without an explaination and "no one can order due to overwhelming demand"
- any women could sue the ass of her husband if someone was stupid enough to try it, no need for new laws.
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:3, Insightful)
Hmmm... Where I'm at, a wife cannot sue her husband, at least not without a divorce. That's a silly idea - martial assets are shared. If a wife sues her husband she is essentially suing herself.
If you suspect your spouse is cheating, your relationship has bigger problems.
But yes, I too suspect this to be a hoax.
Agreed. (Score:2)
Re:Agreed. (Score:2)
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:3, Interesting)
Mom and Dad can each go with one kid to wherever that kid wants to go, be able to find each other later, no need for cell phones.
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:2)
"Meet us at X at 4:30."
And if you have to carry some sort of receiver (phone, GPS, PDA) to show where the other party is, why not a cell phone or walkie talkie? Convey far more information than just knowing 'where'.
Sheep Never Revolt (Score:2)
So dont hold your breath on the revolt.. ( or the 2nd revolution here in this country )
Re:Sheep Never Revolt (Score:2)
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:2)
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:2)
"Issues like this"? You mean jokes? There's no surreptitious way to add GPS tracking to clothing. At present, the smallest GPS tracking device is about the size of a deck of playing cards, requires a clear view of the sky, and
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:2)
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:2)
Great! Then all you have to do is arrange for the person being tracked to wear
Re:When will the public revolt about issues like t (Score:2)
What a dork you are. (Score:2)
I have a better idea. When are people such as yourself going to get the ability to see through transparent jokes? Then maybe your call for a transparent society will have some merit.
If you didn't pick up on this, maybe you're wrong about all those goofy conspiracy theories you constantly banter about?
got the hots? (Score:1)
When you're hot, you're hot!
April Fools (Score:2, Funny)
Lovely (Score:1)
Just what we need...
spoof (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:spoof (Score:5, Informative)
Re:spoof (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: (Score:2)
You may be right.... (Score:2)
Re:You may be right.... (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
the link (Score:5, Informative)
Currently in second place, 175,000 visitors, 115 blog links. Geeks are so gullible when it comes to sex and tech.
Re:spoof (Score:4, Interesting)
Like tracking your spouse is ok?. What a world!
I mean, most, less experienced or cunning perl coders would have done it this way:
"$comment = $track_spouse ? 'What a world!':'';"
If you look at the revolutionary concatisanation, the new way to use ? and . next to each other clearly indicate a brilliant new way to use the Conditional Operator and the "." Additive Operator.
Some less experienced people on slashdot might wonder, that it was just a typo(sic!). They must be new here and do not grasp the subtle indications of the existence of a brilliant mind CmdrTaco must be possessing.
Re:spoof (Score:2, Insightful)
Very usable thing (Score:1)
Nice! (Score:2)
It is also capable of taking biometric measurements and transmitting them PCs and handheld devices.
My biometric information will love to have a PC transmitted to it! Can I get one as well?Ridiculous (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Ridiculous (Score:5, Funny)
"Oh no, her heart rate spiked! I'd better get over there before she gets to the sales counter!"
Cell-phone (Score:2)
No need for fancy GPS units.
Oh and the article linked to is obviously a hoax.
Around 1 in 5 of fathers, aren't. (Score:3, Interesting)
http://tinyurl.com/2yl43 [tinyurl.com]
Up to nearly 1 in 3 in some areas. Sooo there appears to be fairly good statistical evolutionary reasons for males to be naturally distrustful.
DNA tests are quick, cheap and easy these days.
Japanese spouses (Score:2)
Though marketed as a device to enable people to keep track of spouses [...]
What exactly are spouses up to in Japan?
Misattributed paternity (Score:2)
e.g.
http://tinyurl.com/2yl43 [tinyurl.com]
So it isn't just in Japan. Still with DNA testing there's no reason to be deceived in that matter these days.
Isn't this a viral media competition entry? (Score:3, Informative)
forgetmenotpanties.
www.contagiousmedia.org
This surely looks like a joke to me... (Score:2)
Have you ever had either a battery or a GPS sensor and antenna embedded in your shorts? There's not a good way to do this and make it "invisible" to the wearer, yet.
Nice leg pull, though.
I call hoax (Score:3, Interesting)
a whole new market for tinfiol (Score:2, Funny)
Re:a whole new market for tinfiol (Score:3, Funny)
Re:a whole new market for tinfiol (Score:2)
Shouldn't you use tinfoil pants to protect against this ?
In Feudal Japan, panties flip out and track you and don't even think twice about it !
Re:a whole new market for tinfiol (Score:2)
Tracking... (Score:5, Funny)
Finally! (Score:2)
"Where are my pants?"
Re:Finally! (Score:2)
then, in a mugging (Score:2)
She was wearing a blouse under it, you Slashdot pervs!
It would answer... (Score:2)
Spouses (Score:1)
Re:Spouses (Score:2)
Chastity Rays (Score:2)
Tracking... (Score:1)
O wait, this is slashdot..!
If you need electronics to track your spouse (Score:5, Funny)
It's a joke, but still (Score:4, Interesting)
But even though this is a joke, the technology to achieve this isn't that far away. I'm going to be a parent in about 6 months, and while my kid is young, I wouldn't mind attaching a GPS to the kid. Of course, once he/she reaches a certain age, I will have to trust him/her. But until then, I'd be using such a device in a jiffy. I think... it's my first, so I don't know what to expect from having kids
Re:It's a joke, but still (Score:2)
Nope. Not a chance I'd ever consider using something like this.
Up until that 'certain age', they are either with you, at school, or at a friends. They are not generally out roaming by themselves.
So, you trust yourself and the people they are with, or you don't. And if you don't, why are the kids with those people?
Do kidnappings happen? Sure, rarely. But if these things become common, all the bad guy has to do is take the kids clothes off. Unless you impl
Google Maps (Score:2)
Medical uses. If this were real. (Score:3, Interesting)
Grandpa, senile, heart condition, and who's also a diabetic, gets lost while walking and has a heart attack. Now, you can find him and get him treatment. I can see it now, ADT and Brinks will start offering this service. It gives a new meaning to the add, "I've fallen and can't get up!"
Quite hilarious (Score:2)
Although the idea is a combination of abhorrent and hilarious, this is quite probably just a joke. I read it this morning prior to slashdottedness.
It would be cool if it was possible to embed electronics that seamlessly into clothing, but it isn't possible- at least not according to what I've seen, and I work a lot in designing portable electronic instrumentation.
It would take some extreme perversion to have parents constantly monitoring the pubic temperature of their daughters. That's far more invasive
This is a Joke Right? (Score:1)
I call Bullshit (Score:1)
Re:I call Bullshit (Score:2)
It also fails to take into consideration *where* the watch battery is supposed to go. And what happens if the girl doesn't like the design.
umm.... (Score:1)
I would just rip the battery out if I didn't want anyone spying on me, and put it back in if I'm gone hiking.
But then again, I ain't part of the tinfoil crowd.
ok... (Score:1)
Absolute Hoax. (Score:5, Informative)
Now, let's add the following:
Batteries. The engine requires a steady 3.0 - 3.6 V supply capable of sustained current of 50mA. You're looking at a 1/2 AA form factor minimum.
Antenna. GPS antennas require a view of the sky. Beyond that, special antennas designed to fit against the skin are about as thick as a pencil and about 2 cm long.
CPU and circuitry to decode the GPS signal. (Polling RS232) The size is up to you. The minimum is about the size of a quarter, so I'll grant this part if they use the internal oscillator.
Let's assume the signal is to be broadcast. Then add:
Transmitter. This will probably include a crystal.
Antenna for the transmitter. If we're talking about a VHF transmitter at 150 MHz, the antenna is going to be about 24 INCHES long. (That's already 1/4 wave!)
Now fit this into panties unobstrustively.
No way. There is absolutely NO WAY a GPS tracker could be fit into a pair of panties. A jacket, maybe IF it was puffy.
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:4, Insightful)
Transmitter. This will probably include a crystal. Antenna for the transmitter. If we're talking about a VHF transmitter at 150 MHz, the antenna is going to be about 24 INCHES long. (That's already 1/4 wave!)
This is a point which can't be repeated too often: GPS is a totally passive system at the user end. I look forward to a time when regular people understand GPS well enough to know that GPS doesn't track anything ! All a GPS device does is calculate its own location using radio and math. If I had a nickel for every time some jackass script writer has a TV/movie character say "we're tracking him via GPS satellites"...well...I'd have a lot of nickels. I fear eventually we'll get a society full of semi-educated dolts who think that GPS=Tracking Device and will demand that laws be passed mandating GPS devices be at least footstool sized so nobody can "plant one on them"; but they'll all walk around with cell phones, of course, which have no tracking capabilities at all, right?
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:2)
I haven't seen another show approach it from that angle, except for The Shield and they didn't bother explaining it so the average watcher just gets the idea that they put something on the car.
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:2)
The GPS performance on those E911 phones is a joke. It's a bone thown to panicky soccer moms and the FCC so they can take their time deploying the equipment necessary to track user locations based on signal triangulation from the cell towers. The GPS antenna is usually embedded in the upper part of the back of the phone. Do you keep the upper part of th
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:2)
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:2)
But...
Battery - how about thermoelectric instead? Then you don't have to worry about charging.
Granted, might need an extra capacitor or battery for those transmission bursts.
Antenna length - could simply use a different frequency. Or spread spectrum. Or a fractal antenna could help.
But yeah, not exactly gonna fit in panties. Not without a convincing explanation for the thick bulgy layer. uh... padding!
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:3, Funny)
Is that a 24 inch antenna in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?..
Re:Absolute Hoax. (Score:2)
Imagination != Believing bullshit. (Score:2)
You've linked to the old engine. It's bigger than the one that I'm talking about. Like I said, I'm using the cuting edge engine that you probably haven't seen yet. It's smaller and it still won't fit into someone's panties with any subtlety.
As for battery size, the units we make go out for years at a time. I'm very aware of exactly what the power requirements of a Xemics engine are. The sheet that you've pointed out is misleading. The low-power mode does not pick up G
It's time (Score:1)
It's time to become single again, I guess.
Degauss (Score:2, Interesting)
this is absurd. To throw the trackers off, I just leave peices of clothing at friends houses, in a locker at the bus station and the YMCA, all over the place, hell put a few garments in friends cars so ther are many moving targets..
How would this work anyway, do you have to register your boxers with "big brother"? is it tied to a unique id embedded into the unit and documented on
Ok, We know it is a hoax (Score:2)
After looking at the site... I am honestly scared.
First, this technology(GPS part), could easily be produced very soon. Just a battery with a GPS chip could easily be hidden in pairs of jeans, jackets, etc...
Now, the panties thing is far-fetched because if I buy my girlfriend 8 pairs of panties one day... she might be a lil suspicious, especially if I keep saying, wear these today.
A quick google search reveals (Score:5, Informative)
Fantastic (Score:2)
Durablity (Score:2)
Could it withstand being put into a washing machine with the hottest water possible. First you'll want to turn up your water heater.
Try microwaving your clothes. That should definately get the electronics. (I don't recommend this, as it's probably very dangerous.)
Or just wrap your body in tin foil. That might cause some interference.
Wake up Taco (Score:3, Informative)
I thought the chastity belt market was dried up.. (Score:2)
Tinfoil House (Score:2)
Silly editors (Score:2)
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It's not ok to track your spouse? (Score:2)
So the editors can't see a reason other than spying to track one's spouse? How about because you care about them and you want to make sure they're OK at all times. If you have to ask yourself if your spouse is cheating on you, then maybe you are not in a good relationship.
Tracking spouses (Score:2)
Story time, kids...gather 'round...
While doing an initial consultation on this woman's PC, I found the usual spyware....and then I found a spyware program which logs EVERYTHING. Keyboard strokes, mouse movement, net traffic, windows open, it takes random screen shots, etc. When I told the woman she had this thing on there, she said "I hoped you wouldn't find that." She uses it to track her husband without him knowing.
I wanted to offer thi
No more lost socks! (Score:2)
* An application that'll scan one sock and automagically tell me where the other one is.
* Something that'll automatically tell me which of a pile of quasi-dirty tee shirts were least recently worn.
* Laundry that screams out to the automatic laundry-o-matic when it's been stuck down the back of the sofa for more than three months.
Only... (Score:2)
Electronics and water don't mix... (Score:2)
The only options to overcome such an issue would be to completely waterproof the electronics in which case water-tight sealing would make that area of the clothing bulky and uncomfortable (especially considering the article posted was to a set of women's panties), or to make the electronic parts
Why was this "story" submitted? (Score:2)
Get a grip.
life imitates art (Score:2)
Too bad it's fake. Would've been interesting to see the realization of The Climacticon, a '60s novel about a hand-held device that detects sexual interest from across the room. (Talk about speed-dating...)
gps clothings plus embedded rfid (Score:2)
That way you'll know both where your spouse goes and when she takes her clothes off!
Is this a great technology or what?
And the winner is... (Score:2)
It seems they broke the rules: (Score:5, Funny)
You are permitted to promote your entry however you see fit, with three exceptions: You may not use paid advertisements, automated processes that fake traffic, or scams that produce traffic without people actually seeing your content. Most other stuff is fair game.
emphasis mine.
It seems that by posting to slashdot, they have violated the rules.
It's not a spoof, you can get this in Japan (Score:2)
It is made specifically for keeping track of kids.
Slashdot has changed (Score:2)
Even though this is fake, it's interesting that the submitter did not think that this product is "intrusive in our lives."
I for one welcome our new girlfriend-stalking overlords.
Why wait? (Score:2)
Go buy something...
Go for a drive..
Your privacy rights are already being exploited.
Re:If your child was kidnapped... (Score:2)
Re:If your child was kidnapped... (Score:1)
Re:If your child was kidnapped... (Score:2)
Re:If your child was kidnapped... (Score:2)
Re:If your child was kidnapped... (Score:2)
The probability of the child wearing it would be much higher than the child not wearing it (that's what the "usually" part implies), so the kidnapper would do so just in case.
One possible solution to the "naked child problem" was already given. Another would be to hide the child so that it cannot be seen from outside (e.g. use a mini transporter).