This is the CATS.i. It’s a tracking device that its creator says is so small it’s “almost undetectable when being worn.” I could see paranoid parents putting it in their kid’s pocket to make sure he doesn’t wander off. I could see a dog owner slap it onto the collar, to keep an eye on Fido at all times. And, in a Hollywood-esque moment, I could see slipping it in your wife’s purse, to make sure that she and the gardener aren’t too friendly. (But now you’re dealing with trust issues…)
In any event, it’s supposed to be the world’s smallest such tracking device, about the size of a cellphone battery. It’s got a built-in GPS tag, and then it uses GSM to radio in the device’s location.
How about that, putting little radio-tags on your kids, like you would a dog. How silly has society become? That’s probably why some parents would rather have their kids sit in front of a TV and play video games all day. At least then they don’t have to worry about The World out there. Not to say the the underlying tech isn’t neat, of course, but its use is just weird to me. That is all.
Hell yes I want to GPS tag my kids:
The best national estimates … are found in the National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children (NISMART-2), released in October 2002. According to NISMART-2, an estimated
800,000 children younger than 18 are missing each year, or an average of 2,000 children reported missing each day.
200,000 children were were abducted by family members.
58,000 children were abducted by nonfamily members, and
115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These crimes involve someone the child does not know, or knows only slightly, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.
pfff.. there are smaller tracking devices than that. Ive seen them on 24
Sam
i detect a sublt hint of sarcasm in your comment about smallers units?
well you are right…the catsi mk3 is under development and will be 1/3 the size of the mk2.
ta
Dustin, where do you get those numbers? Out of your nose? I’m not buying those figures for one second.
Right up there with those phony homeless counts the socialists kept pounding us with during Bush 41’s tenure. BTW, where are those homeless counts now? Did all the hope and change work out so well for them that they all have homes now?