OT: A curious mystery of probably very little importance.

[dogscoff]

as they do have gps tracking devices you can purchase for implantation in your children to keep track of them

No they don;t.

How exactly would you power such a device? HOw would you recharge the batteries? WOuld you really want an orbital microwave transmitter implanted under your child's skin?

An idiot self-publicist "scientist" here in the UK (professor Kevin Warwick) tried to push these things a while back and caused a load of publicity, until it was discovered that the thing required a mobile phone in close proximity... utterly pointless tablod scaremongering, especially when there are far more important things to worry about, like book parasites....

[PvK]

Actually, the local (Seattle) media recently covered several new "child homing device" products. The GPS Versions were to put in their cars. But there were also tracking devices to strap to their bodies to tell if they are leaving proximity of the sensor, and/or to track them down with. Not perfected yet, but available, and it certainly shows that there are people who think tracking other people's every move is a good idea. Big Brother bastard/scum that they are...

PvK

[Kamog]

*Nervously grabs several books from his shelf and flips through them to check for parasites. *
...
Hmmm, I don't see any parasites..
*Carefully examines the covers, the spine, the bindings of the books, looks closely at the first several pages and the Last several pages*
....
Still nothing.

But wait! I do remember that some of my clothes were infected with a similar parasite. I remember one of those tapeworms stuck inside a new pair of pants I bought a couple of months ago!

[psimancer]

sevweral different news magazine tv programs have reported on the availability of pill sized implants designed to permit the tracking of children when necesary i have viewed programs regarding this since 2002 i believe the Last time i saw a segment on this was on a tech tv program

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I don't find it probable. A battery that size would have a range of only a few feet.

They might have been talking about future tech, though.

[Paul1980au]

Tech sounds interesting

[Spoo]

GPS Pet Tracking