GPS gadgets
The Breadcrumb Tracker – Your Teen’s Worst Nightmare
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but it seems like more kids are getting into trouble, or worse, ending up missing. It seems like everyday I hear a news report about a child abduction, or a missing mom… there are Silver alerts on the highway warning us to be on the lookout for a “lost” senior. I don’t know whats going on, but it does keep me up nights. I remember when I was a kid, wandering the neighborhood for the entire day, coming home in time for dinner, its not like that anymore.
Breadcrumb is offering a unique location technology software that is able to provide parents or caregivers the ability to view the precise location of their family members right from their Smartphone, or any Internet connected computer. The software also allows children to send a request for help to their parents with a simple push of a button on their Smartphone. A parents dream, a teenagers worst nightmare. Continue reading » The Breadcrumb Tracker – Your Teen’s Worst Nightmare
AT&T partners with Amber Alert GPS
Gone are the days when you can trust your little one to have some fun outdoors without worrying yourself silly over whether there is some weirdo out there who is stalking your kid. This has led to a growth in the market of child security, where devices such as kid-friendly cell phones as well as emergency buzzers have been released, and this time around we have mobile carrier AT&T work with Amber Alert GPS to deliver the V3 child tracking device.
This particular device is said to be able to keep parents notified of the current location of their children so that they need not worry themselves to a head full of white hair, but rather, let nature take its course. Just how flexible is the V3? Well, for starters, parents are able to create Zones around their home, neighborhood, school, soccer field – basically a perimeter along a selected area, and be on the receiving end of an email or text alert whenever their child enters or exits a Zone.
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Magellan has Back-Up Camera for RoadMate GPS units
When it comes to backing up your vehicle, not everyone finds it as easy as you do – or perhaps, you might even fall into the category of preferring to parallel park instead of backing up vertically! Well, fret not – there are devices out there in the market that will help you out of this particular dilemma, including a back up camera, but what happens when a GPS company like Magellan rolls out their Back-Up Camera companion device? This will play nice with the RoadMate safety series of car navigation units, letting you reverse and park more safely.
Working in tandem with this camera would be a Safety Series GPS navigator that will expand Magellan’s focus on safety and security the entire time you are seated within your vehicle. It will kick off whenever the Back-Up Camera kicks into high gear, helping you reverse out safely from your driveway, and will continue working throughout your entire commute with premium GPS navigation features. The time it clocks out? When you park your car without causing any damage to property around you, followed by shutting off the ignition.
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GTrek II GPS Data Recorder
Most parents would ask their teen who has just received the freedom badge – wait a minute here, I meant the driving license, this question when he/she breaks the agreed curfew hour, “Where’ve you been?” Well, thank the heavens that modern technology will help solve and answer many of your questions, especially with the GTrek II GPS Data Recorder coming in handy to track your (once) little one.
It might seem like an invasion of privacy, but paranoid android parents will think that it is £99.99 well spent. After all, just what exactly does the GTrek II GPS Data Recorder do? It is perfect for logging any kind of long journey, regardless of whether it is a countryside outing or a round-the-world trip.
The GTrek II GPS Data Recorder will keep track of where you have been, keeping teens on their toes – but not only that, it can also work equally well for adventurers who want to share their interesting trips with family and friends, leading the way to undiscovered local points of interest as well.
Of course, turning it off will stop the GTrek II from tracking you, and since there isn’t any display to worry about, all you need to do is pay attention to the LED – if it flashes in orange, that means it is working. As the GTrek II does not broadcast any signal, it is safe to use on aeroplanes even, but we are quite sure the attendants will not understand.
PhoneSheriff – Know Where your Kids are, and What they’re Doing
Retina-X Studios just announced the availability of PhoneSheriff for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows smartphones. This parental control service for mobile phones allows parents to monitor, filter, and restrict their children’s smartphone activities. The parent sets the software to record and block activities associated with specific numbers and it can also track locations via GPS.
PhoneSheriff is a stealth application which allows parents to see everything their kids do while on the phone, like every text message sent or received, every call dialed or received and all videos and pictures captured by the phone. Yikes! Then, parents can check the kids actions by logging onto the hidden interface on the phone itself, or in order to be extra sneaky, they can log into a secure Web panel from any Web browser to view the recorded logs and stored GPS locations. Boy I’m glad my parents didn’t have this stuff when I was a kid! Continue reading » PhoneSheriff – Know Where your Kids are, and What they’re Doing
Roadside Assistance that Finds You, even if You Don’t Know Where You Are
Mobile location technology is playing a new role in the evolution of emergency roadside assistance, thanks to an innovative location-based solution developed by AT&T and Road America, the well known roadside assistance provider. In partnership with researchers at AT&T, Road America has developed a GPS technology solution for pinpointing breakdown locations in seconds, even if you have no idea where you are.
Previously, drivers needed to have GPS units installed in their cars to be located in the event of an accident or roadside breakdown, but a new solution offered by Road America is bringing this important safety feature to any basic cell, landline or smartphone on any network. Sure, we had telematics device’s like Onstar, but it was only available on GM vehicles… so it left other stranded travelers relying on “well, there’s a big brick building, it looks like a school, with a truck parked in front… I’m around the corner from that.” Not exactly the pinpoint accuracy I’m looking for on a stormy night with a broken car. Continue reading » Roadside Assistance that Finds You, even if You Don’t Know Where You Are
Get “Bizzy” – Real Time Reviews and Suggestions
Bizzy, the personalized local business recommendation engine powered by people with similar tastes, launched a new mobile location-based “Check Out” feature, which lets you quickly and easily denote your response to every business you visit. Then the sentiment that you have shared about the business that you visited will let others know what you thought about the place and it will help Bizzy give YOU recommendations for the next time you’re out and about.
“Bizzy’s new ‘Check Out’ is very different than other location apps that focus on WHERE you went. Bizzy’s focus is on how you liked where you went,” says Aaron Strout, author of the upcoming book “Location-Based Services for Dummies.” “I’ll keep checking in with Foursquare or Gowalla when I go out, but I’m also going to ‘Check Out’ with Bizzy to keep a record of my favorite places, let my friends know how it went, and help Bizzy learn more about my tastes.” Continue reading » Get “Bizzy” – Real Time Reviews and Suggestions
Magellan eXplorist Pro 10 announced
Magellan intends to make another entry into the GIS market with their latest device, the eXplorist Pro 10. Just what is the Magellan eXplorist Pro 10 made out of? For starters, it has been described to be a “rugged, lightweight and waterproof GPS handheld device” that was specially designed for GPS/GIS data collection. Among that hardware specifications of the eXplorist Pro 10 would be a vibrant 3″ WQVGA transflective color touchscreen display, coupled with a 533MHz processor and 128MB RAM – where all of it combined is more than enough to deliver the relevant power required to work with maps and large data sets in a compact-handheld form factor.
As for other hardware specifications, the eXplorist Pro 10 will also be equipped with 4GB of onboard storage that can be further expanded to a cool 32GB as long as you slot in a microSD memory card. This would go some way in enabling large data sets including aerial photos so that they can be loaded in a jiffy.
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