clipped from: www.canada.com The GPS Child Locator, or num8, attaches securely to a child's wrist and contains a Global Positioning System (GPS), said Matthew Salmon, a spokesman for the manufacturer, lok8u.
"It uses GPS and GSM (Global System for Mobiles) technology with an accuracy of 10 feet (three meters)," he said. "It tracks your child."
Parents can also log on to the company website to discover their child's present location.
"You can also set up a perimeter, an invisible fence, and if they wander out of this invisible fence which you put on the Internet it will warn you," Salmon said. "It will text you immediately."
It will be available in both Britain and the United States this year and retails for 200 dollars with a 10 dollar a month subscription fee.
"Fifty percent are positive, 50 percent are negative, that it's a bit Big Brotherish," he said. "But it's really just about letting you have freedom of mind."