Getting a driver’s license is a cornerstone in a teenager’s life. The freedom afforded by unsupervised driving is something for which most teens yearn. But unfortunately, hubris, inexperience, and distractions from both modern gadgets and friends often have disastrous consequences – leading to 1 in 4 teens having a car accident within their first year of driving. While [...]
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No Comments »There are just some things about which you can’t be too paranoid. Who’s watching me? How safe is my data? Where are my kids? While each concern has validity, none but the latter strikes more deeply into the gut of a parent. Anyone familiar with kids understands their tendency to wander. It’s natural for young children to [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Emerging Technology, GPS, Real Time Tracking, Technology Tags: Best Buy, GPS, Insignia, Little Buddy, tracking 1 Comment »Well here’s a interesting demonstration from some folks at the Georgia Institute of Technology (see the video below). While the students working on this may have earned an “A”, privacy advocates will surely prefer to see them fail. Claiming that they can overlay real time, dynamic details on Google Maps, the researchers are essentially ramping [...]
Posted in Emerging Technology, Google, Internet, Real Time Tracking, Technology Tags: Google, GPS, maps, spy, tracking 4 Comments »
