This GPS watchphone might save your life…
By Will Park on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 5:27 PM PST In Accessories, Announcements, Devices, New Hardware
Say you’re lost in the woods or some Arctic badlands and there’s no one around to come to the rescue. You have a couple options. Stay put and hope you get found. Search out help (you know, frantically yelling for help). Pray. Or, if you’re lucky enough to have a Lokate Emergency GPS Watch on your wrist, you can simply hit the “panic” button on your watch and wait for emergency 
rescue crews to swoop in and grab your lost self.
The Lokate Emergency GPS Watch keeps time, but the real draw is its ability to track your exact position and relay those coordinates to an emergency response center that’s ready 24 hours a day. You location is sent to Lokate’s 24-hour response center and is pin-pointed on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Virtual Earth maps, making it dead-simple to “lokate” you. Emergency alerts can be sent as “amber alerts” that can send out voice messages, or “red alerts” that trigger an emergency response. Alerts can also be set to trigger if a user fails to check-in at a certain time.
The Lokate GPS Watch costs £295.00 (plus VAT) and requires a £14.95 monthly subscription fee.
The Lokate GPS Emergency Watch might one day save your life. Now how many mobile phones can you say that about?
[Via: TheRawFeed]
