Children's running shoes with built-in GPS

29.01.2007
Californian corporation GTX announced a new line of running shoes Xplorer with built-in receiver of navigation GPS.

The novelty is intended for children and teenagers whose movements are interests their parents. For safety, certainly. Latent into the running shoes devices fix owner’s movements and when child cross invisible border the message (SMS) is sanding to the specified mobile telephone.

Running shoes also allow to trace the movement using the Internet: on special service of the company at input of the password the parent can see a mark of a child’s site on the country city or region map. We believe that reserve of arrangement of the electronic watchman in this case can play a positive role in kidnapping problem.

It is necessary to notice, that the footwear of line Xplorer is equipped with one of the most small and the most powerful receivers. And this footwear gives to it’s owners some more interesting opportunities, as an opportunity to set for one pair of running shoes at once several safe and dangerous zones on a map to trace crossing their borders as by any inquiry of the person, and, on the contrary, on initiative the footwear sending a signal "danger", writes membrana. This feature Xplorer engineers have named " the Double geoprotection " (Dual GeoFencing).

And it is necessary to tell, that GTX offers footwear for adults — for spouse could trace each other’s movements, for example. And generally GTX — not only shoe company, in habitual sense of a word, it’s cup of tee are GPS-technologies.

Official premiere of new models by GTX will take place on February, 1 of present year in Las Vegas, at the exhibition of the World Association of footwear manufacturers (WSA Show).

Source: www.mignews.com