If you happen to misplace one of your siblings in the next month, you may be lucky (or unlucky) enough to find him again.
That is, if he is wearing the latest in footwear technology.
Isaac Daniel, founder of the new footwear line Quantum Satellite Technology, is pleased to announce a revolutionary set of shoes with a pre-installed Global Positioning System (GPS). The heartbeat of this GPS is a 2-inch-by-3-inch chip that can omit (or receive) a wireless alert, letting the wearer (or the parents/friends of) inform a 24-hour monitoring service that he is indeed lost. The information on the whereabouts of the shoe-wearer can only be accessed remotely if the caller can give the correct password.
The problem? The shoes are expensive, presently are available only in an adult line, and they look like something your grandfather would wear to go jogging. The sole purpose for the creation of the $325+ sneakers was to help keep track of young children, not adults. The monitoring service that complements the footwear is an additional $19.95 a month, making safety available only to those who can afford the monthly fee.
Worrisome parents, beware! A pair of these shoes is not the apparatus equivalent to a cell phone. Non-emergency inquiries will be paid for by the caller, so being everywhere your kids are is not going to be solved with these shoes.
And what if the pair of QSTs gets wet? Not "ooh there's a puddle, let me step in it" wet, but "hey let's go play in the creek" wet. Face it, kids are messy and like to ruin expensive things. There has been no mention of how much water damage these shoes can sustain before they go kaput.
Besides, for less than $65 parents could buy a better-looking pair of New Balance sneakers and spend the rest on cross-country training to teach their kids to outrun those pesky sexual predators.
Information for this post was obtained from the Kelli Kennedy (AP) article "GPS Sneakers Can Provide Piece of Mind."
2 comments:
wow i didnt know about these shoes, but i guess its a good thing. Cell phones are a better and somewhat cheaper way of working this system but hey...whatever...if people have the money to buy these ridiculously expensive shoes then go for it!! interesting article though..
I didn't know about such footwear either, Peter.
Thanks for enlightening us.
I'll stay with my old tennis shoes--New Balances.
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