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This GPS watchphone might save your life…

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 5:27 PM

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 lokate-gps-emergency-watchrescue 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 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]

About The Author

Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...