http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/I know a better place to hide the tracker... you thinking what i am thinking ;)?]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 24th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
Wouldn't surprise me if one of those "kid cellphones" (the ones that the parents program specific numbers into and thats all you can dial) exists with a tracker in it too.
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Oh and for all the idiots snarking about how evil it is to track kids, I would suggest you read this

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010051826_autisticboy13m.html

Kid would be alive today with one of these. 1 in every 100 children is diagnosed with Autism. Seems like a pretty profitable market to me.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 24th 2009 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
I'd buy one of these things and have it implanted under my kid's skin. He'd never know how I always knew where he was. He'd just grow up thinking all parents know where their kids are at all times.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
If you honestly feel that you would rather kill yourself than provide your offspring with this simple level of safety, then I have no personal objection as long as you don't do it in front of your children.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
I'd lay down in traffic for my kids. Using tracking tech to keep up with them isn't inherently wrong or harmful, no matter what you OR Darren Murph might have to say on the matter.]]>Oct 26th 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
Sometimes you can be the best parent in the world and your kid still turns out rotten. Children are not clones, they have minds of their own. ]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
I say - beat the crap out of your kid as soon as you notice that he/she starts to look like you!]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
I'm 30, but have no kids - I imagine by the time I do, we'll be able to easily embed a device like this into a child's shoe or something like that. Hell, that's a great idea... I'm on it. I'll see you suckers when I'm rich! :-)]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 24th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/If I am to embed this in something, taking it out all the time would suck. ie: your bicycle

Another thing: it would be awesome to mod this into a laptop and have it constantly getting power from the laptop battery even when off. LoJack would go out of business.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 23rd 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
Well, actually, I guess child abductors really could be that dumb...]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
1. the type that plan it out and ask for a ransom. These are more common in movies than in real life.

2. Pedophiles. These are far more likely, far more dangerous, and are obviously very rarely thinking as a rational person would.

3. Estranged parents that lack custody rights. These are the most likely abductors, and would almost certainly spot the gizmo and discard it. Of course these abductors are usually the least dangerous and the kids often go with them willingly. That and the parent who does have custody usually knows who the perp is and his cell #, License #, SSN# and various other ways to track them.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
It doesn't appear to be that big. Just make sure your child puts it in their pocket each day and you have one less thing to worry about. It's not about parents being negligent. Kids have to go to and from school each day and that's when many abductions ocure. Like the one mentioned above.

Considering this thing isn't advertised to death I doubt anyone is going to assume the kid has a GPS tracker on it.]]>Oct 26th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/
No product details, no nothing, all we have here is just a crappy little article written by someone who obviously sees no use for the product.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/insignias-little-buddy-child-tracker-encourages-kids-to-run-awa/Oct 25th 2009 7:56AM