Tracking People Using Bluetooth 65
damdam writes "A Dutch guy seems to have set up a small network of bluetooth scanners. He has all the information logged to a central database and you can search it over the web. On his website it says "Some of these matches were only minutes apart. Therefore I could even calculate the approximate speed of someone moving from one location to another.". There are also some interesting statistics on his site showing traffic volume in his hometown (based on bluetooth signals) and he even lists popularity of certain Nokia phones. It's interesting to see how much information an individual can gather using old equipment."
He also tracks a lot more stuff at his house (Score:1, Informative)
From toilet flushes to how often the cat eats!!
Cityware (Score:3, Informative)
As one of our projects on my course, we're looking at extending this to do without hotspots and be able to show you a list of who's around you right now, pulling their name and picture from facebook and alerting you if one of your friends is near by. We're also looking to be able to store where you've met people and display this using google maps.
Re:Did we slashdot it already? (Score:3, Informative)
Nah - Sometimes servers get Slashdotted before a single post makes it in.
And now that we have the Firehose, it wouldn't surprise me to start seeing the occasional story Slashdotted before even making it to the FP.
RFID powder... welcome big brother (Score:3, Informative)