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Children's Watch Allows Parents To Track Their Kid
pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that a new wristwatch called num8 has a GPS tracking device and satellite positioning system concealed inside so parents can locate the wearer to within 10 feet with Google maps. The watch sends an alert if it is forcibly removed. The makers of the watch claim it gives peace of mind to parents and makes children more independent. 'Losing your child, if only for a brief moment, leads to a state of panic and makes parents feel powerless. The overriding aim of num8 is to give children their freedom and parents peace of mind,' says a company spokesman. Critics of the watch say tagging children is a step too far in paranoia about child safety. 'Is the world really that unsafe that parents need to track their children electronically? I don't think so,' says Dr Michele Elliott, director of children's charity Kidscape."
1. Extend functionality to provide automatic electroshock to BRAT moving beyond configured away-from-home radius
2. ?
3. PROFIT!!!
> I don't see how this bracelet really compromises much convenience on their
> part, so personally I wouldn't hesitate to use it on younger children.
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Personally I wouldn't use this for teenagers because at that age, they have matured enough that they deserve a little privacy
Exactly - if you put the wristwatch on a teenage boy, all they'll find is that he's spending most of his time in the bathroom rapidly jumping back and forth about 4" at a time.
I'll pay you $20 million if we can settle this out of court!
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It costs 150 pounds ($240-250 USD). I think I can think of things more valuable to a growing child than an overpriced watch/GPS combo.
Of course, remembering how I treated watches as a child, I think the GPS functionality might come in handy more often than you suspect. No, your child isn't going to be kidnapped, but he *will* lose his watch. Except this time you have a chance to find it. If this happens 10-20 times, it will pay for itself (vs. the cost of a visually identical non-GPS watch). If my parents hadn't stopped buying me watches after I lost the fourth one, I definitely would have come out ahead on this.
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I just re-read my comment. I hope we never have to get rid of disinfectants, and certainly not disinfectants either! That would be disastrous, not to mention being a complete disaster.
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When you have children then you can have an opinion.
Thanks, I was about to post this. It's amusing that the poster used wild and baseless paranoia to "prove" wild and baseless paranoia. Wish I had a mod point to give out.
Yes, most of the deadliest fighters in the world come from Tom's Dojo in the strip mall next to Lucy's Famous Nails.
is there a service provider in the middle of Outback, Nowhere in Australia, or in Canada, or even some areas of the United States?
I am curious as to why it is "the outback, Australia" and "areas of the US" but apparently all of Canada? We have a large variety of service providers up here: elk, bison, deer and moose. On advantage of our providers is that they can actually drag the child back with them - I'd like to see any of your fancy US providers do that. We even have a new cutting edge, high speed Canada goose network that has just enough capacity to carry iPhone traffic. So please remember that just because we all live in igloos doesn't mean that don't have access the latest tech.