According to this article, for only $350 you can buy a pair of shoes with GPS built-in. Sounds like a steal, except there’s also a $19.95 monthly fee.
For shoes.
With GPS.
Hmmm.
So, part of the reason to do this? Find someone you think is lost, say an elderly relative or a child. Only catch is, the only way to activate the “find them” feature is by the wearer pushing a button on the shoe. That’s just not going to work very well is it?
There’s a lot of attention toward GPS these days. I love the technology, and I love my GPS unit, but I totally believe it’s a dying device category. A lot of next-generation mobile phones have GPS chips embedded, and that’s really the most logical place for it to exist, especially when you consider the incredibly poor in-dash receivers built-into the higher end cars. Funny how you can pay an extra $3000 for a badly built ‘option’ or save a lot of your money and buy a standalone unit.
If you really want some GPS in your life (and I don’t blame you), for about $450, you can buy my favorite GPS unit, the Nuvi 350 (amazon link), and give it to your kids. Probably more useful this way anyway.
I love my Nuvi.
I don’t want a Nuvi Shoe, but I definitely want a Nuvi phone (long before I want my Zune phone).
According to his article….
“In some emergencies — such as lost child or Alzheimer’s patient — a parent, spouse or guardian can call the monitoring service, and operators can activate the GPS remotely and alert authorities if the caller can provide the correct password.”
That would make it much more attractive.
Might be a good idea. My thinking is that an abductor would know about GPS phones, bracelets, Teddy Bears and toss them. Maybe not knowing about the shoe GPS. Almost as good as having Get Smart
Shoes
Alzheimer Patient remember the password?….I don’t think so!