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#85262 - 02/09/07 03:58 PM Engineer: GPS Shoes Make People Findable.
woodsrider Offline


Registered: 12/12/06
Posts: 15
Here's an interesting development on personal locating devices!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070209/D8N64ESG0.html


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#85263 - 02/09/07 04:32 PM Re: Engineer: GPS Shoes Make People Findable.
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If these are the same ones I saw on the news a couple of months ago, the GPS thingy has a very limited range. And in the thing I saw, there was some consern that anyone, bad guys included, could, with a simple laptop and the proper software, track anyone wearing the shoes. But the possibilities with something like this are endless...
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