prossies could just use bluetooth advertising. Walk past and your phone could vibrate, heh.

Link this in with ability to pay by phone.

Think about linking that with billboard adverts, tv, radio etc. If there was a global system of product identity, like barcode, link this with bluetooth and ability to pay by phone. Do we have the future of shopping?

Add barcode scanning/reading, RFID to mobile phones, and do we have a shopping list maker on the phone? Can we then use our phone to order and pay for our goods?

Throw on a price checker and Tomtom, so that as I'm starting my car my mobile phone can be working out which shop will be best value for me.

Where can I buy the cheapest petrol near to me?

I want to eat in an Italian restaurant that has been reviewed with at least 4 out of 5 stars locally. I want my phone to show me where it is. Of course once I find a good I will stick with it for some time.

The future is wide open.

I'm sure many of the 15-35 year olds are looking for an introduction, and this gives them that way in.

Instead of just seeing someone who you like pass you by and you never get to talk to each other to see if it's mutual or take it further. Most people find it hard to approach a stranger in public and say "wow you're hot, want to go for a quick knee trembler?".

Well with this new tech they can now say, "hey you like the TingTings too, so do I." "yes I do, cool." " Would you like to go for a starbucks?" "No you seem a bit creepy, Police!" And so on.

It's a way in. An introduction. And it's possibly a security bonus, because if the "meeting" is tracked and recorded then it means that it's easier for police to track down who was around that person and viewed their profile if something untowards happens.

And it also means that you can add that person you your favorites, and have your friends review and write bitchy, funny or approving comments!

However, not talking to strangers does protect us from meeting some right nutters. With the lowering of this security it could mean we are more open to being scammed.

The more common offences for women are fraud and theft. So if an attractive woman fraudster feels like robbing you the easiest way is to go back to your place. She can help you fall asleep by making you feel good for 15 minutes! Then she can have a good look around, phone for a taxi and walk out with a sports bag full or your valuable items. Maybe she could take your bank cards, your phone, laptop etc.

Of course, you would have her photo from her profile and this should mean she is easier to catch. Which should put her off.

In fact with 10 minutes thought I do think this could reduce crime, but it's hard to see where it will truly go.

I look forward to the new world this inter-connection will give us. A melding of the real and cyber. Ordinary folk could really use this to their advantage.

Women who are approaching 35-40 and are still single, wanting to have kids, can have "I want to be a mummy, looking for a daddy-type guy" and can rush into having babies with a man they hardly know!

Checkout Bluehoo which provides this functionality, is available for pretty much every phone platform and doesnt require an existing social network acccount.

www.bluehoo.com or m.bluehoo.com

It is beyond me who would want to be tracked like this, really completely alien to me, compared to this al queda and bush make relatively much more sense to me..
People want to be tracked simply because someone that tracks them is a hyves member? I just do not get it.

It might be handy to find other jurors and ask them who they would put in prison though I guess :sigh: