Posts Tagged ‘tracking’
Spot’s GPS Tracker/Messenger Combo Gets Smaller, More Messaging Options
When you’re playing an MMORPG, it’s nice to have an “oh sh**” button that gets you out of trouble. If you’re a gamer, you know what I mean. For those of you that have a life, it’s a command that you can whip out, calling on some whiz-bang spell or talent to get your character (“toon,” in gamer parlance) out of trouble. I’ve often thought that having a button such as this would be great in real life, for any variety of reasons and situations. Thanks to Globalstar Inc. — the satellite communications people — and its subsidiary, Spot LLC, when you’re in the middle of nowhere, you’ve dislocated your shoulder when you grabbed that sapling to break your fall down the steep side of a mountain but your pack kept on going, now you can have a button to press (assuming it wasn’t in your pack).
GPS Tracking: Who Says It Can’t be Cute?
I’ve been covering GPS stuff for several years now, both on the business-to-business side, and here on the consumer end of things. Needless to say, I get a lot of email — scads of it, really, and much of it often only tangentially related at best, like Chinese equipment manufacturers looking for a distributor here in the United States. That’s where this came from, the Cutest. GPS. Tracker. Ever. Courtesy of Shenzhen, China-based Xexun Electronics.
D’oh! GPS Nabs Another Crook
Ah, this is becoming a classic for the D’oh! Files: crook steals a phone, and subsequently gets nabbed by police because he was using said phone. This latest example of crime not paying comes to us from the local ABC affiliate in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Seems the Buckley family home in Apex, a town outside Raleigh, was burgled, and the thief took a mobile phone, along with other electronics, including a Nintendo Wii, as well as some jewelry.
Kids Monitored with GPS, Orwell Spins in Grave
If you were one of those kids getting pelted with spit balls who could never find someone to sit with when you got on the bus, maybe this will seem like a good idea. If you were one of the ones propelling said spit balls, probably not so much. And it does beg a larger question: is monitoring school kids with GPS a reasonable method of ensuring their safety and behavior, or is it an Orwellian invasion of privacy? Some Welsh school kids in Great Britain have a chance to think about it first hand.
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