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by Mike Masnick




No More Losing Your Kid... Thanks To Bluetooth

There are a lot of stories about location based technologies and services showing up these days, and many of them focus on the very important task of not losing your kid. However, this one seems a bit odd in that a Danish amusement park is getting set to offer Bluetooth-enabled tagging of your kid. Bluetooth seems like a fairly inefficient way of going about this, considering the overall range of Bluetooth and the number of access points needed to make it work. However, I guess, in such a limited space it could work, and probably returns a fairly accurate reading.

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