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Big Mother is Watching You - Even on the School Bus

by Tom Henderson, Posted Sep 2nd 2010 3:00PM

The students of the Chippewa Elementary School are carrying tracking cards so officials are able to pinpoint exactly where and when they stepped aboard the school bus. Credit: Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune / MCT
Santa Claus would love to ...
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Iowa State Fair Offers Parents Tracking Device for Kids

by Amy Hatch, Posted Aug 10th 2010 2:30PM

Who needs a helicopter? Just get a GPS! Credit: MNgilen, Flickr
If you've always wanted to go to the Iowa State Fair, but were afraid you might lose track of your kid amid the crowd, you can rest easy now. Fair organizers are offering parents a ...
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GPS Prevents Thefts of Baby Jesus

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Dec 21st 2008 2:01PM

Sure, it sounds hysterical, but leave it to modern technology to solve a long-standing problem around the holidays. No, I'm not talking about how Santa's sleigh makes it to the houses of good boys and girls the world over in one night. Rather, I'm ...
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Keeping tabs on schoolkids

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 25th 2008 4:03PM

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been used for years to track inventory; now, one school district in Rhode Island is planning to use the technology to track students. RFID chips will be put into the kids' schoolbags and read by ...
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How to spot a really cool Father's Day gift

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jun 14th 2008 4:57PM

It seems to me that the best kind of gift is something that is totally cool but also totally unnecessary. Clothes are definitely a necessity; they're no fun to get. The same goes with ordinary tools-of-the-trade sort of thing, even if they're for a ...
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Are GPS systems endangering kids?

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 17th 2008 10:34AM

Reader W. H. Heydt pointed me to this story about a Dutch research organization that tested a number of satellite navigation systems and found that all but one routed drivers through residential areas instead of sending them along major ...
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GPS Tracker Jacket

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Nov 1st 2007 11:26AM

A British clothing company has developed a jacket that allows you to track the exact whereabouts of your kid (or, at least, of their jacket) via the GPS system and the internet. In addition, you can set boundaries and, if the jacket leaves the ...
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GPS shoes to be released soon

by Joanne Lutynec, Posted Feb 13th 2007 8:02AM

There have been a number of reports over the past few years about tracking your children by GPS, but it usually involved them having to carry around a piece of equipment - sometimes even cleverly disguised as a toy. Problem is, what happens if / when ...
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