With the right firmware, which I am sure that Apple has already patented, all it would take is for you to inadvertantly expose your ipod touch / iphone in a public place (shopping mall for example) and it'll light up like a christmas tree with context-sensitive, location-aware offers (James blunt CD's 99p!! - just take three paces forward and turn left for your local HMV)
Alright this could be possible already, but GPS / wifi / bt receivers all drain batteries - a simple diode detector would be be far more efficient, I think
Nothing, NOTHING is funded or researched without the express long term goal of relieving us of the burden of having money.
Sorry, cynical mood today.
PS, for the photosensitive epileptics amongst you, light flashing at several hundred MHz wouldn't affect you in the slightest, most people affectedare only sensitive to around 25 Hz.
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With the right firmware, which I am sure that Apple has already patented, all it would take is for you to inadvertantly expose your ipod touch / iphone in a public place (shopping mall for example) and it'll light up like a christmas tree with context-sensitive, location-aware offers (James blunt CD's 99p!! - just take three paces forward and turn left for your local HMV)
Alright this could be possible already, but GPS / wifi / bt receivers all drain batteries - a simple diode detector would be be far more efficient, I think
Nothing, NOTHING is funded or researched without the express long term goal of relieving us of the burden of having money.
Sorry, cynical mood today.
PS, for the photosensitive epileptics amongst you, light flashing at several hundred MHz wouldn't affect you in the slightest, most people affectedare only sensitive to around 25 Hz.