When GPS sneakers were first introduced back in 2007 there is a lot of public scoffing. Who needs GPS devices on their own feet? How much of an impractical product--dumbest idea of the entire year! It's now 2011; shall we be ready for them yet?
The concept for GPS sneakers first found Isaac Daniels back in 2002 as he received a phone call that his child choose to go missing from school. Mr. Daniels was on a business trip and immediately hopped a plane back home to locate that there had been a mix-up: His son had taken an unscheduled bathroom break and had been separated from his class.
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Mr. Daniels was relieved, however it set his mind to thinking. What if his son had actually gone missing? Wasn't there something that could be completed to help locate him? The solution ' GPS sneakers.
The concept was that the GPS unit on the underside from the shoe might be activated by depressing a button. The kodak playtouch camcorder were built with a life of the battery of approximately 24 hours and would continually signal until the button was depressed again. Mr. Daniels suggested this would be perfect for hikers, outdoorsmen and children--the first couple of just in case they were lost while seeking and also the latter for extreme cases like abduction.
The first GPS sneakers chaussure de foot mercurial were marketed through the Fele Corporation in 2007 and retailed for $325. These were the sneakers that got trashed within the press. Only a few hiking and travel websites took them seriously. Although the idea was sound, there was little marketplace for footwear that needed a $19.95 per month subscription-monitoring service, as well as an initial run was only for some hundred (though it was reported that stores were preordering them by the thousands). Fele ceased operation in 2008.
Undaunted by the failure of his first company, Isaac Daniel continued his imagine GPS shoes. His second endeavor marketed a new GPS sneaker line ' nowhere shoe. The Blue shoe was equipped with Bluetooth technology that connected the shoe to some GPS-enabled phone or PDA. The shoe retailed at $150 by having an optional $19.95 subscription-monitoring fee similar to the initial GPS sneaker. By the writing want to know ,, the IsaacDaniel web site is gone and so are these shoes. They aren't available at any online or brick-and-mortar retailer.
The GTX corporation seems to be the only real current viable source for GPS shoes. They've another story of methods the company developed the idea for GPS tracking in shoes that highlights the Court case. GTX is looking to possess a marketable product available to buy by the end of Spring 2011 (by March 2011 there isn't any mention around the Aetrex site). The estimated retail is between $200 and $300.
GTX also announced that the Ambulatory shoe (for dementia patients) is going to be available for $200 at Shoes Store, and at select assisted living facilities, starting in September. The tracking service will cost $40 to $50 per month. The tracking service works with Google maps to monitor residents wearing these shoes. When they travel outside of a predefined area an alert will be delivered to the concern facility with the exact place of the baby.
GTX has also expressed interest in dealing with major shoe brands, even though they haven't named names, and getting into the children's shoe copa mundial blanche market.