Erm this technology is available for all and sundry and has been d=for several years, it's more common use these days is for tracking stolen vehicles, a current system is Tracker, most HS police vehicles in the UK are fitted with Tracker location equipment as standard, the units are seriously small and fit into a cigarette packet, it transmits via public satallite on defined frequencies.
Best regards
Philip Robbins
--- alexander.johns@wellsfargo.com wrote:
>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.
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