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NuM8 GPS Locator Tracks Your Kid, Not The Tech

by Will Safer on January 10, 2009 at 05:24 PM


The folks at U.K.-based Lok8u say they have a solution to the major flaw of GPS locator devices: most systems only track the technology and not the actual person or product you want to monitor. That's because a kid can ditch the backpack in which you've placed a location device or, worse, a ne'er-do-well type can remove the GPS locator from the kid – leaving the concerned parent without the real information they need.

Announced here at CES, the NuM8 is a GPS locator that attaches to a child's wrist like a watch. In fact, it does tell the time, which is part of the appeal for a parent and child. The kid won't feel like he or she is wearing something weird and the parent won't feel like they're sticking a house-arrest bracelet on their child.

To find the kid's location a parent simply sends the text message "wru" from a registered number to Lok8u or goes to the company's Web portal to click "where r you" and the child's location is shown on a Google map.

If the watch is forcibly removed from the child's wrist an alert is immediately sent to the parent's mobile phone with location information. Parents can also set up safe zones for the child.

It'll be available this summer for $200 and will have a $10 monthly fee.

Tags: CES, ces-2009-top, GPS locator, GpsLocator

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