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watch your back: backpack with GPS tracker

Oct 10, 2008 gps navigation, tracking

Even Orwell couldn’t have envisioned the backpack the good people over at DPL are selling. Basically they took a regular backpack, stuffed a GPS receiver, battery, antenna, gave it remote audio capability, and concealed all of this equipment so the wearer of the backpack has no idea what they are carrying around. We’ve seen GPS equipped backpacks before, but the remote audio capability is a first. Basically what this means is that you can call your backpack and listen in on the conversation of the lucky person that’s wearing it. The web sites suggest some good uses for the backpack: One would be to keep track of kids, dogs, motorcycles, shifty employees, and even Alzheimer’s patients. Although giving a $1200 dollar back pack to an Alzheimer’s patient seems like a recipe for a lost backpack to us.

The tracking plan starts at $19.99 per month and the voice plan, which enables you to listen to conversations around the backpack, will run you .45 cents per minute. If you only need the unit for a short time it can be rented at the rate of $175 per week. Details on how to rent your very own GPS spy backpack can be found here.