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[satyenpoojary]

Yes you heard it right!

While this is more related to skiers, but yet a very interesting concept!

To think about it: its probably a part of the gear that a rider\skier would have it on him that can still track them when in distress! Something like the old homing beacon can the old 90?s movie dreamt about to track down a hero or a villain!

What?s next?

Read the article here

[Revmaster]

Interesting. But it's just that they have inserted a compact size unit into a glove. The use, as I see it is, one wont have to carry anything extra to keep tracked. I think a better / safer place to mount such stuff could be the suit collarc / belt , where the abrasion is in minimal unlike gloves which suffer with heavy wear.

[razorBlades]

cool stuff satyen we can also track the guy who stole them


i remembered this one which i stumbled long back.. the helmet calls 911 if one crashes cool eh?
http://gizmodo.com/3...lls-911-for-you

and our desi version of it
http://www.iwebble.c...ectronic-brain/

I am pretty sure that you have read about them earlier

Edited by razorBlades, 19 February 2010 - 02:44 PM.

[avinrichards]

nice
helmet calls 911 ? whoa!

[arn]

You could home in onto cell signals as well. Infrastructure already in place, too

[satyenpoojary]

admin said:

Interesting. But it's just that they have inserted a compact size unit into a glove. The use, as I see it is, one wont have to carry anything extra to keep tracked. I think a better / safer place to mount such stuff could be the suit collarc / belt , where the abrasion is in minimal unlike gloves which suffer with heavy wear.

Since this is something made for Hiking, I think this was chosen to be on the gloves... for a biker it makes more sense on something like your keychain or something which will stay on him like maybe a dog tag!

razorBlades said:

cool stuff satyen we can also track the guy who stole them


i remembered this one which i stumbled long back.. the helmet calls 911 if one crashes cool eh?
http://gizmodo.com/3...lls-911-for-you

and our desi version of it
http://www.iwebble.c...ectronic-brain/

I am pretty sure that you have read about them earlier

Engadged and Gizmodo are set on my iGoogle page, so I get to read them infact one of my college friends did an assignment on his concept of a BT enabled helmet which will home SOS alerts... and I ended up blowing up the concept as it already exists in some other form!

avinrichards said:

nice
helmet calls 911 ? whoa!

arn said:

You could home in onto cell signals as well. Infrastructure already in place, too

Check this... its a small mobile app that can send out a tweet or a FB alert displaying your location every x minutes. There is also a SOS alert mechanism (not sure how it works as its available only in the pro version)

[thilak]

razorBlades said:

cool stuff satyen we can also track the guy who stole them

OT: Reminds me of my Casio Sports Tracker GPS enabled Wrist watch, which got stolen in Manipal. GPS didn't help me track who stole it