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Track your kids/pets/cars with zoombak GPS

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Tuesday June 03, @04:16PM
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The article I read said they cost about $200 (amazon has them for just over $100) to buy with a $10/month fee (though I can't verify this on their website, as parts of it are broken). I wonder if they sell them with a collar a kid can't remove? (I kid I kid)


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  • Maybe your backpack doesn't want to be found? Ever think of that? Hiking gear has choices, too!
  • We're building a lojack type gadget for a company that makes live animal traps. It's just a little module that detects when an animal trap is tripped, and it's got GPS and a pager module to let someone know the trap needs to be emptied.

    It's funny the way technology gets applied.
  • I want implants my kids (and potential kidnappers) can't remove.
    • It's not hard to build a Faraday cage, and even putting a kidnapped kid into the basement of a large building would attenuate the signal from such a device that it wouldn't be detectable from much more than a hundred meters.
      • Which is about 100000 times better than what we have right now.

        I'm not worried about anyone smart enough to build a Faraday cage... The vast majority of snatch and grabs end in the death of the child. The sooner you know to start looking (and the sooner you can look for their transponder) the more likely it is that you'll get them back alive.

    • I want implants my kids (and potential kidnappers) can't remove.
      You do realize that the potential kidnappers would then just have incentive to remove whatever body part you attached it to, right?
      • Never put it in the same place. Vary where it is implanted so that it's hard to find. Put it somewhere it cannot be removed even by hacking off a limb, like under your scapula, inside the hip bone, etc.

        Again, the vast majority of people who commit these types of crimes aren't that savvy in the first place.

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