Do you know where your child is?
You can now locate your child via GPS. What’s new you ask? That’s old news, my kid has a mobile phone that they can’t live without and it has GPS, I hear you say?
Well, kids being kids, they tend to lose things. So then how do you find them? Well a tech firm, Loc8U, is launching its GPS tracker wrist-watch for kids. It is activated as soon as it is securely fastened to the child’s wrist and is shock- an water-proof. If the child manages to remove it, it sends a text message to your mobile with their exact position and a Google maps image of their location. The company offering the service also allows geo-fencing, which allows you to mark an invisible boundary which if the child crosses will also alert you via a text message on your mobile.
Something similar was launched at CES in 2006 but it was more of a push technology, allowing kids to call home/mom/dad. Whereas this version allows for passive/active tracking by parents.
Here’s a sample video of the num8 in action ast CES-2009:
Is it too big-brotherly? Will kids feel like parolees with parents knowing their every move? I don’t know about you, but I’m not the type of parent to leave my kids unattended anywhere, but with kidnappings, maybe this might help? What do you think? [via news24]
Tags: Big Brother, ces, Family, gps, kids, loc8u, monitoring, num8, Technology, watch
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Cool article – could you please give me some linklove as I covered this article before news24. Thanx http://tinyurl.com/8xrosh
Maybe if the watch were more stylish they will get more kids to wear it. Can I get one for my husband too
What I need is GPS for my keys so I can find them in less than the usual three quarters of an hour it normally takes. Netstar, you listening?
@Matthew – remember the good old days you had that little thing on your key chain that if you whistled it’d beep – those were cool – something like that would be useful for finding one’s mobile when the battery is dead and you can’t remember where you put it