Not only is this tech in play in the GWOT, with prom season rapidly approaching, it also looks like a mandatory system for suburban households across the heartland.
This from the manufacturer’s site:
“The Track Stick receives signals from twenty four satellites orbiting the earth. With this information, the Track Stick can precisely calculate its own position anywhere on the planet to within fifteen meters.
“The Track Stick will work anywhere on the planet Earth. Using the latest in GPS mapping technologies, your exact location can be shown on graphical maps and 3D satellite images.
“The Track Stick’s micro computer contains special mathematical algorithms, that can calculate how long you have been indoors. While visiting family, friends or even shopping, the Track Stick can accurately time and map each and every place you have been.”
Yes. That’s why I need this device. Often I wake up and wonder, “Gee, where have I been and how long was I indoors before I wound up facedown on my neighbor’s lawn?”
The company’s website does mention an “oh, by the way” at the bottom of the homepage: “It is illegal to track someone without their {sic} permission.”
Do our special forces and the CIA know that? They certainly don’t want to get themselves into any more hot water.
(The gouge: AD)
– Ward
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Now don’t worry kids, we trust out alone, unchaperoned tonite. Go do what you want, im sure youre really just going to the library. Oh here, will you carry around this USB stick for me? It needs some fresh air.
hah, how are you gonna attach that to the frame of a car. Having sold similar products to the — in NY I can tell you this is not a good product, or a unique one.
As far as i can see the thing only records the positions it has been, so in order to read them you’ll need to get the device back. It’s not like a beacon or something.
The only practical use is for backpackers maybe (except most of them cant afford it), or as some sort of black box (if they find the body..)
has been some devices like this, best use is to plant it on somebody in a bag or on a car and then retrieve it and get the movement. Some also report movement with a mobile phone message.
Problem is that it only work once. If the kid know he is tracked he would simply use it to prove there he should be with leaving it where he should be and then do whatever he want.
Other uses:
For VIPs under bodyguard care
Hikers.
Tourists lost from Tour Group
EMT use.
Track inmates?
Track suspects.
Use in 007 movie.
Paris Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Track gangs.
Track packages- place in said package for delievery.
Nice.
Cool.
& have display in car GPS & Home PC Google Earth map.
Wild.