I think he meant, "... for a promotional use ...", as it says in the article.
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----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:19 PM Subject: RE: [gpsstash] Re: Human Caches?
> >suppose Molsen is the first to use it with a transmitting device. > Uhh, no. Lots of companies have done this. Emergency response vehicles, > taxi cabs, limos, airplanes. I read a story about a cement company in > Mexico that's doing this for all their trucks to allow their dispatchers to > assign them more efficiently and help them route around obstructions. I'm > sure the military has gone way beyond anything like this. They went hog > wild with regular GPS's during Desert Storm. No telling what's happened in > the intervening 10 years. > > This may be the smallest use of one. You would just need a bare-bones GPS > receiver, connected to one of those cheap cell phones. I know I read a > story recently (on Slashdot?, maybe Wired) where someone was planning on > printing the circuitry for a cellphone on paper. Cheap, one time use (short > time, anyway) phones. Needs a little engineering to get it all to work in > the size of a beer bottle. Activates when someone opens the bottle, I > guess. Wonder what indication the drinker will have as to what's going on. > Did the article say? I can't be bothered to re-read it. > > > ---------- > > From: makaio@aracnet.com[SMTP:makaio@aracnet.com] > > Reply To: gpsstash@yahoogroups.com > > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:04 PM > > To: gpsstash@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [gpsstash] Re: Human Caches? > > > > --- In gpsstash@y..., Kluso@I... wrote: > > > IN WHAT IS BELIEVED to be the world's first use of the U.S. > > > military's Global Positioning System of satellites, Molson Canada > > and > > > Marketing Drive Canada have brewed up a new promotion for Coors > > > Light... > > > > > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/604575.asp?0na=2314360- > > > > The "world's first use..." was by those who developed it...the U.S. > > military. The world's first 'commercial use for marketing purposes', > > afaik, would be by 20th Century Fox for the Project A.P.E. caches. I > > suppose Molsen is the first to use it with a transmitting device. > > > > > > > > > The gpsstash page > http://www.geocaching.com > The GPS Stash Hunt page. > http://www.triax.com/~yngwie/gps.html > > GeoCache HQ > http://www.braveheart.com.au > GPS Stash Hunt FAQ : > http://www.triax.com/~yngwie/stashfaq.txt > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > gpsstash-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >