Kokuyo's Doko Line GPS panic button

Japan has a solid record of using RFID and GPS to track its kids, oldies and pets, but Kokuyo's Doko Line service ups the paranoia level a notch. Not only will it send an email to your Mum if you step outside a predefined 300m-5km zone, it'll also inform the support center at your local radio station in order to mobilize the community in a search for your wayward ass. Kokuyo plans to sell them to schools, care facilities and medical institutions to track the inmates, and the GPS box that comes with the service also includes a panic button and attack alarm. The unit will sell for Y29,800 ($270), with service costing you a further Y1,500 ($14) a month.

[Emeric @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM]

It's a good idea, but not very usefull if you have to search your phone to press the button in case of Emergancy!!

[Emeric @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM]

It's a good idea, but not very usefull if you have to search your phone to press the button in case of Emergancy!!

[Apoco:Lips @ Dec 19th 2005 2:23AM]

There are quite a few freaks in Japan.
Apart from groping on trains, there were incidents in the past where some guys kidnapped and ate kids. Last year a girl was kidnapped and the mother recieved an email to her phone from the girls phone with a picture of her dead body as an attachment... the Japanese police were very slow to actually think of tracking the co-ordinates of the phones signal. He wasnt caught for another few months because of that - and its possible he raped+killed a few more time after that.