Cool Gadget Find Me Spot
This ought to keep people from having to launch major search teams the next time some idiot gets lost in the woods, Find me spot is a new Satellite GPS and messaging system that has the right price, and could allow your loved ones to track your every honking move using google maps, and help you set up a mayday next time you are lost in the woods or on the ski trail.
Once activated, SPOT will acquire its exact coordinates from the GPS network, and send that location along with a distress message to a GEOS International Emergency Response Center every five minutes until cancelled. The Emergency Response Center notifies the appropriate emergency responders based on your location and personal information – which may include local police, highway patrol, the Coast Guard, our country’s embassy or consulate, or other emergency response or search and rescue teams – as well as notifying your emergency contact person(s) about the receipt of a distress signal. Source: Findmespot.com
This might just be the thing you need for your kids, your slowly declining parents or grand parents, and those folks in your family that have somehow beaten the Darwin Awards by still being alive and unharmed when they go into the woods.
The cool part is that it can also be a messenger, so people can talk to the search team that is trying to find them.
Might be a great toy for someone’s birthday, or before summer and people start hiking and getting lost in the woods.
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The unit doesn’t act as a real time messenger. It sends pre scripted messenges when you hit OK or HELP. It’s not a radio.