For parents who must know where little Johnny is at every moment, comes the GPS jacket.
Using Google Earth maps, users can watch the jacket wearer move. The movements are updated every 10 seconds.
But they don’t need to be online to find out where the person is. Users can also receive alerts to their e-mail or cell phone when the jacket leaves the boundary, meaning parents could potentially receive alerts whenever their children skipped school, left the neighborhood or went to their boyfriend’s house — so long as the child was wearing the jacket.
As you can imagine, the jacket was originally designed for mountain climbers and other folks who might actually need something like this. Though I will confess to debating about whether or not to threaten my 16-year old with this purchase.
I think you would have a better chance if the GPS unit was in your daughter’s cell phone. If she is like any other teen-ager that I know, the cell phone would ALWAYS be with her. The jacket? Not so much!!
my only comment is that while its nice to know where your kids are and to make sure you know what they are doing… i beleive you should try to maintain a trust relationship with your kids so that they are willing to tell you what is going on and what they are doing…
Some such device on our little kids who are subject to abduction by some of the crawling slime-balls out there might be a good thing, but hugging your kids and developing a conscience in them is the best “tether” anyone can have on their kids. When I was sixteen, however…. Well … that’s a poor example of an exception to the rule. My folks knew when I was headed somewhere other than where I said I was going. Somehow, they just knew. I had kids of my own before I figured out how they knew!
Woody
I knew about fed ex at 16.