Lost

Raise your hands if you have ever lost a pair of keys. Good, good. What about the television remote? Same here.

How about Grandma?

Project Lifesaver is a new program out of Stamford, Connecticut that tries to solve this last problem. It’s a transmitter designed to help police track down children with autism who lose their way from home, and the aid in retrieving Alzheimer’s and dementia sufferers who have wandered away from caregivers.


Lost

The system consists of a coded transmitter, a receiver and a directional antennae. When the police need to find a someone, they key in the participant’s transmitter code and wait to hear a “ping” from the receiver. They can follow this ping to right to the person.

Considering the complexity of this kind of radio signal localization, I can only assume that the range on these devices would limit the search to a few blocks. Even so, this is a great proof of concept for other devices that may come in the future. Besides the decidedly Orwellian applications, products like this could be used the the future to help track pets who have run off or even aid in finding kidnapped children.

That or replace the government brain implants with a more biologically friendly alternative.

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