The description I wrote for the mapping panel at SXSW this year included this …
Last year online mapping was emerging, now it’s everywhere; on your mobile, in your camera, on your wearable head-up display, in your location aware clothing, even on paper and in your kids. Which of those did I totally make up?
I kinda knew at the time that I’d not really totally made any of them up, but the currently most out there one was the “in your kids” part. Not so any more …
According to SankeiWeb, Japanese geverment (Soum-sho) is planning to spend 1.2B Japanese Yen (about 10 million USD) to build “a system for watching kids” using mobile phones, GPS, RFID tags, etc. There’ll soon be pilot tests in 20 regions across the country.
From RFID in Japan, via textually, via (and with additional comments and links) Engadget.
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