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Woz Reveals Plans

People seem to be worried about the range, but 1-2 miles is pretty significant. If that's real, then a single base station could cover up to about 12.4 square miles. If you assume only a 1 mile range, you could cover 100% of the US land mass (even the parts where nobody lives) with fewer than two million base stations. Not so bad. Try doing that with 802.11.
 
Woz has become a crack-pot, lives in past

Wozniak has become a crack-pot and I am seriously concerned about his mental state. Naming his company WOZ "Wheels of Zeus"? Sounds narcissistic to me.

Everytime I've heard him talk on TV (like TechTV) or at a convention, all he can do is ramble on about Apple 1975, pranks and worthless garbage. Jeez us!, the man wears a 1GB thumb drive around his neck! How hard DID he land on his head in that private plane crash 25 years ago?
 
Re: Woz has become a crack-pot, lives in past

Originally posted by websterphreaky
Jeez us!, the man wears a 1GB thumb drive around his neck!
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I don't understand how this could possibly reflect badly on him. Are you accusing him of being a geek? 🙂
 
Originally posted by Flowbee
Very little imagination... the product you describe already exists. It's called LoJack:
http://www.lojack.com/foryou/early_warning.htm
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How curious. You said you didn't see how this technology could be used to foil car theft, and now you acknowledge it requires "very" little imagination (I toyed with adding "very" myself but felt it to be a very pointless and very useless addition to a very clearly expressed idea. Very well then!)
 
It has been done before. I was hoping woz would come up with something completely innovative. Hey, maybe it will surprise all of us, and it will not only track dogs, but also turn them into aibo's!!!
 
Originally posted by Pete_Hoover
It has been done before. I was hoping woz would come up with something completely innovative. Hey, maybe it will surprise all of us, and it will not only track dogs, but also turn them into aibo's!!!
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Well, it has been done before, but if you wanted to use such a system, it would cost you hundreds of dollars, with a 'bug' about the size of a pack of cigarettes, costing two or three bills, and a receiver costing at least as much if not two or three times the cost.

This gets it down to the size of a silver dollar or so, and I imagine the receiver will be about the cost of an airport base station or less. It would be nicer if the receiver was the size of a watch or cell phone.

Of course we have next to no details... we had more info about that PDA he was behind, and the timing on that was such that by the time I saw them in stores, who cares? That was too crowded a niche for non-detailed teaser press 3 months earlier to make any difference.

Its' what we don't know that will kill it. How much? When? How Big? What resolution? You know, I don't see much use for something that might be good for one or two miles range with football field sized resolution (earlier post; how do you figure a one mile range equal to 12 square miles?), you get a map that is maye 25 by 25 or maybe 32 by 32 pixels, with each pixel equalling an acre you still have to search within.
 
Originally posted by Wry Cooter
(earlier post; how do you figure a one mile range equal to 12 square miles?)
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I don't. I figure a two mile range equal to about 12 square miles. That's the high end of the estimate, isn't it?
 
Originally posted by job
I'm not trying to turn this into a pseudo-political thread, but what's to stop the US Government or other governements from using this sort of technology to track individual citizens?
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Who says that the government isn't already doing this?
 
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