Insignia GPS child tracker
Oct 18, 2009 gps navigation, tracking
We just discovered that Insignia is about to release a GPS child tracking device called Insignia Little Buddy. It is already up on Best Buy’s site but it has a “coming soon” status right now. However we at least know it is going to cost $100.
It seems like it supports real time GPS tracking but we have no information on what the monthly cost is going to be or which provider Best Buy decided to go with.
The Insignia GPS child tracker will have an accompanying website to keep track of your kids – and have an idea where they should be based on a weekly schedule.
Find a way to attach this to the car charger and you’ve got yourself a GPS vehicle tracking device.
You’ll have to wait until October 23rd though.
From Best Buy product page:
Keep tabs on your child at all times with this small but sophisticated device that combines GPS and cellular technology to provide you with real-time location updates. The small and lightweight Little Buddy transmitter fits easily into a backpack, lunchbox or other receptacle, making it easy for your child to carry so you can check his or her location at any time using a smartphone or computer. Customizable safety checks allow you to establish specific times and locations where your child is supposed to be — for example, in school — causing the device to alert you with a text message if your child leaves the designated area during that time. Additional real-time alerts let you know when the device’s battery is running low so you can take steps to ensure your monitoring isn’t interrupted.
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October 18th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
The web site that Best Buy is using is the AT&T FamilyMap service. This is the same service you can purchase to track family member locations using their cell phone:
https://familymap.wireless.att.com/finder-att-family/welcome.htm
The AT&T service is $10/month for
tracking up to 2 phones and $15/month for up to 5 phones. It can track using the phone’s GPS or simply approximate a location using the cell site the phone is registered with.
The user interface is awful, but it does allow generating notifications when the child gets close to different known locations.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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October 18th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
I tried the family map service – it was not that accurate, it used cell phone towers to triangulate positions, which were huge areas…mine was like 5000 feet, the one in the photo is not to bad at 378 yards – but searching in the huge circle for someone? Lets get real…
October 20th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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October 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 am
So you’d rather have absolutely NO idea where you child is within a thousand miles, right?
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:19 am
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October 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 am
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October 23rd, 2009 at 7:45 am
[...] A web interface positions you various little ones on a map marked with your custom “safety zones.” But the most enticing feature, if we’re studying the GPS tracking page properly, is that you can assign your children with various barnyard animal iconography. That’ll teach little piggy the consequences of being late. The Little Buddy will be on sale at Best Buy shortly, and we assume the service could come with some sort of monthly cost. [ Best Buy via navigadget] [...]
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October 23rd, 2009 at 9:41 am
This would be more interesting if AT&T’s coverage area didn’t suck.
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October 23rd, 2009 at 10:16 am
Great, another way to ruin kids. Track them. Funny, if this was the government looking out for your best interests, you would be all up in arms. Here, oh yeah, its for their safety. Don’t worry, the already don’t understand No and Responsibility. Now kids will have another excuse to act like idiots as the rest of the world laughs at the dumb sh*t we do here.
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October 24th, 2009 at 2:17 am
[...] With a name like “Little Buddy Child Tracker,” you know this thing has to be awful, right? Insignia, Best Buy’s house brand, has just listed an incredibly invasive and humiliating new GPS tracker on its site, and rather than promoting it as just that, the marketing brains have decided it best to aim this at paranoid mums and dads who’ve done such a poor job raising their offspring that they can’t even trust ‘em to trek out on their own. All sensationalism aside, there’s little Insignia can say or do to remedy the product labeling job, but if you’re okay with shoving this extra-small stick into your youngster’s lunch box, you can keep tabs on his / her exact location and have alerts sent to you via SMS if they leave a designated area. Just make sure they don’t ever know that you were responsible for planting this thing on their person, else you can forget about junior footing those nursing home bills when the time comes. [Via Navigadget] [...]
October 24th, 2009 at 3:14 am
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October 27th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Yes, with the number of children that go missing each year, every parent should use a personal GPS tracking device, but you dont have to be a parent to need or benefit from owning one of these devices. Motorcycles, skis, musical instruments, laptop computers, purses & luggage, even the family dog: EVERYBODY has SOMETHING they want to protect!!!
When considering the purchase of a tracking device, do your homework because not all GPS systems are alike. Aside from features such as Geofencing, speed-alerts and so on, the one thing you really need to look into is the COST. Most GPS devices I’ve looked into have HIDDEN costs such as monthly/annual renewal fees or charge you per track ontop of the purchase price. When I called Best-Buy to get more info on the “Little Buddy” they couldn’t even tell what the OTHER costs of thier system were.
I ended up buying a system called “The GPS Guadian” at http://www.thegpsguardian.com . Not only did I get the device for FREE by purchasing 3 years of service up front, but I got the 4th and 5th year of service for FREE as well.
October 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Gosh some folks cannot see the forest for the trees. But maybe it takes the tree to fall on them, or maybe if their, small child or a family members small child was taken,,,, If the child could be located right away it might save torture for the child and years of misery for victim familes. What kind of baboon would put the safety of a small child over the attitude that Big Brother is watching. Ignorance is bliss, hope you get a life.
October 28th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Wow great idea, I will take a half dozen. I have already started the wife and sewing on small pockets with zippers on the inside of coats and sweat jackets.. I’m no loser dad .. i have twin 5 year old girls and better safe then sorry. just think if the girl found in the dump last week had one, or the girl that was taken walking home from a friends house only a block from her house. we are going to Disney this year for Xmass and all together we have 4 kids and 2 cars.. as for all you people looking at the bad side of it.. who cares what big brother sees.. you have something to hide.. we go camping and hiling all the time.. oh yeah 10 year ago remember the 16 year old boy that was lost in the woods for 3 days before they found him.. all he did was get turned around after taking a piss… hey big brother I will give my kids sim card numbers.. how many sex offenders live in your area.. maybe we should give them out free and inplant it.. just remember bad things happen to good people everyday.. better safe then sorry.. God bless america
October 29th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
This device does not use the crappy AT&T network. It uses Sprint, and it is a much more sophisticated device than the silly name implies. It will deliver good positions under conditions that no other tracker product will. A bargain price if you ask me.
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October 30th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I’m already planning to buy one for my wife and one for my mistress. I’ll find out where the cheating whores go when they say they are going shopping.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Nothing gets me more PO’d than my mistress cheating on me. See ya at the water cooler G-man.
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November 7th, 2009 at 9:40 am
This is really interesting. Thanks for the sharing.
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