Electronic ID Tags Network

I thought this would be of interest to Scott and Kurt. It's about "Wheels of Zeus", a new company whose technology, WozNet, can be described as:

"... a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio
signals and global positioning satellite data to keep track
of a cluster of inexpensive tags within a one- or two-mile
radius of each base station. WozNet, he said, will include
a home-base station that has the ability to track the
location of dozens or even hundreds of small wireless
devices that can be attached to people, pets or property.
The tags - expected to cost less than $25 each to produce -
will be able to generate alerts, notifying the owner by
phone or e-mail message when a child arrives at school, a
dog leaves the yard or a car leaves the parking lot.

'We started out with the idea of a product to keep track of
stuff,' said Mr. Wozniak, the 52-year-old engineer who was
the technical brains behind the first Apple computer in
1976. 'We ended up inventing a new class of wireless
network.'

There may be other potential applications for the low-speed
data system, like text messaging, Mr. Wozniak said, as well
as other uses that he declined to describe..."

Full NYTimes article here:

Apple Co-Founder Creates Electronic ID Tags