Amber Alert USB Drive
- March 9th, 2007
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Concerned parents can now store all of their child’s biographical information and stats on a Kensington USB thumb drive, the Amber Alert Child ID Kit. This $30 512MB USB drive is password protected but stores info for only one kid per drive. The included software, which judging by the screenshots only works on Windows, organizes things like medical info and the contact information of relatives.
Personally, I question just how necessary one of these things is, but looking at it from a purely tech perspective, $30 for 512MB isn’t a bad deal at all. And if it saves someone out there, more power to it.
Product Page [Amber Alert via Ubergizmo]
s (Who am I?)
1 year ago
$30 for 512MB isn’t a bad deal? Maybe for people who buy these things at Best Buy.
This drive is a rebadged Kingston Data Traveler. You can get a 1GB on Amazon right now for $4. Yes FOUR dollars.
Joshua Bloom (Who am I?)
1 year ago
The point of this device is not that you are getting storage. The point is that you have a physical representation of exactly the data you need in the event that your child has been lost.
If your child has been abducted you don’t want to be searching for photos, blood type, contact info, medical records, and all of the associated info. You want to pull out this device from a safe place, and have everything you need ready to go.
-Josh
Dave (Who am I?)
1 year ago
You do not need a special $30 drive to maintain the information.
Amber Alerts are for abducted children, not missing children. While information about the child is important - the parent should already know that information - the most important information needed is about the abductor. If the kid is in the back of a van all the pictures and descriptors in the world won’t help. A description of the van and the bad guy will.