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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 10 2016, @03:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-found,-please-return-to dept.

A Japanese city has introduced a novel way to keep track of senior citizens with dementia who are prone to getting lost -- tagging their fingers and toes with scan-able barcodes.

A company in Iruma, north of Tokyo, developed tiny nail stickers, each of which carries a unique identity number to help concerned families find missing loved ones, according to the city's social welfare office.

The adhesive QR-coded seals for nails -- part of a free service launched this month and a first in Japan -- measure just one centimetre (0.4 inches) in size.

"Being able to attach the seals on nails is a great advantage," a city worker told AFP."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20161208171158/https://www.yahoo.com/news/lost-found-japan-tags-dementia-sufferers-barcodes-093502777.html


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 11 2016, @12:11AM (#439838)

    Seriously? People in comas are "extremely dangerous" and may not only need tasered, but shot as well?

    Have I run afoul of Poe's Law?