News.com gives an overview of Intel's activities in the field of sensor, wireless and wearable technologies.

Among those experiments are
- a bed that monitors health related data of your baby (incl. a video teddy bear),
- a house tagged with RFID's to recognize everything that happens,
- a WiFi system to localize people out of GPS range

The focus is on proactive helping "overwhelmed people".

While these are experiments it is not sure that products come out of it, however it inspires people: "Some groups, for instance, have expressed interest in the baby monitor to study the sleep patterns of chronically stressed adults."

But even more interesting was the this:

"Whether one sees these systems as a useful exploitation of technology or an insidious step toward Big Brotherdom is in some respects a matter of implementation, personality and opinion."

I too believe that privacy issues depend on the way you implement a product. So many people give their data to everyone only to get some small discount...