COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away COVID-19 is spurring new types of wearable hardware. Exhibit A: a startup named Nodle has cooked up a “smart wearable” that bakes the third-party contact-tracing the “Whisper tracing protocol” and Bluetooth into a device said to be wearable as a necklace or clipped onto your garments. Bluetooth lets the device detect if it is …
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Bluetooth lets the device detect if it is within six feet of another, at which point it administers a buzz to remind wearers that social distancing is a fine idea.
Something additional to "a buzz" would be an exploding neck collar. If that doesn't enforce social distancing I don't know what will.
The one which might have a 'joke icon' in the pocket ->
I am about to begin a Kickstarter for a new device that can be built into a hat, using a combination of Lidar, Bluetooth and short range radar at 24 and 79 Ghz, it can detect close proximity humans to within a millimetre.
At anything less than 1825 millimetres a small bioreactor kicks in and releases a measured amount of pungent methane that activates smell receptors in the encroaching individual, thus, driving them beyond the minimal acceptable distance of 1828.6 mm.
Being hat mounted allows easy 360° surveillance of potential enchroachees. Options for weaponisation are in the pipeline.
So, the Noodle (sorry, that's how I write it) will need 128GB of SD storage to manage its blockchain - that it will have to synchronize somehow - it has bloody LED lights that you don't see because it's clipped on your shirt pocket, and it will be available when the pandemic is over. Or restarting, we'll see.
Now tell me, who is managing this blockchain thing, what server is it going to call for updates and what security measures are included ?
Frankly, I have the feeling that the company making this is going to fold if that's the only product they have.
the bit about number plates?
"can also capture video, sync it with the bodycams and recognise number plates into the bargain"
So the 12-hour police bodycam autosyncs with a device in the car to read number plates? Which the in-car device is already doing with its own cameras, and this just adds more surveillance? Has anybody considered that there might, possibly, maybe, be some little minor privacy implications to recording every number plate (and presumably) location that the officer could possibly have seen, while both in and out of his car?
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