| Here's a new one... [message #350815] |
Sun, 14 September 2008 12:17  |
 |
NukeIt15
Messages: 987
Registered: February 2003
Location: Out to lunch
Karma:
|
Colonel |
|
|
You read that right. I'm really not certain whether I should be laughing or crying.
Here's the patent application
For the dimwits who are too lazy to read for themselves, here's a short article and a summary:
Apple, together with Nike, has been marketing shoes with a sensor that sends data to your iPod. This is useful for runners and other athletic types who want a pedometer to record how many steps they've taken and so forth. However, you can presently take that sensor right out of the shoe- or buy it separately- and stick it in another shoe of your choosing (i.e. one that's more comfortable) or do whatever you damn well please with it. The Powers That Be don't like this very much, so they want to stick an RFID tag (or something like it) in "authorized" shoes and change the sensor so that it will only work with those specific shoes. It may not be exactly the same thing as the "anti-piracy" software we all know and loathe, but it is the same bloody concept.
All under the guise of quality control, of course- because the output data might be different if you use another kind of shoe with the sensor. Oh no, the horror!
*edit* link fixed
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
Remember, kids: illiteracy is cool. If you took the time to read this, you are clearly a loser who will never get laid. You've been warned.
[Updated on: Sun, 14 September 2008 16:45] Report message to a moderator |
|
|
|
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
