How would you like to charge your mobile devices, such as your GPS tracker, simply by taking an after-dinner stroll or walk with Fido? Well, soon you may be able to.

That’s because British researchers have figured out a way to power small electronic gadgets simply by extracting energy from a person’s knees through the use of a high-tech knee strap. The researchers from a trio of UK Universities have built an innovative device that is capable of converting body movement into electricity, which is able to power small electronic devices.

Referred to as the “pizzicato knee-joint energy harvester”, the user wears the circular strap around her knees. The strap’s outer ring is fitted with four protruding arms and over 70 plectra, which pluck the arms when the knee is bent. Similar to a guitar string, the arms then vibrate generating energy, which can in turn charge mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »

Interested in seriously improving your golf game? If so, it might be time to embrace technology, specifically GPS tracking technology, to lower your golf score. Even pros, like Bubba Watson, who won the 2012 Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, has endorsed a golf tracker to help golfers improve their game.

Since 2005, when the United States Golf Association (USGA) gave the legal thumbs up for tournament play, Golf GPS systems have come a long way, equipped with many features, bells, and whistles. Read the rest of this entry »

A mother who was a victim of a bully herself as a child invented a GPS tracker smartphone app designed to stop bullies in their tracks and keep children safe from the antics of bullies.

The app, called Feel Secure, provides parents with peace of mind not only in terms of protecting their child from bullies, but sex predators and other physical threats to their safety and wellbeing.

Outfitted with a GPS tracker, the app can pinpoint a child’s location in a matter of seconds. It also has an alarm feature; the child needs to simply press one button, and the app activates a panic mode.  If a child is being bullied, threatened by a stranger, or being lured into a car, the panic mode dispels a high-pitched alarm, which also automatically calls family or friends. Read the rest of this entry »

Overtaken by jewelry, insurance claims for electronics dropped from the top category in 2011, according to the annual Contents Claims Index released by Enservio, who is a provider of valuation and replacement software and services and contents inventory creation.

Jewelry claims increased by four percent to 17 percent, while electronic insurance claims decreased by two percent to 13 percent, both of which were ranked by dollar value as a percent of total value. Read the rest of this entry »

Thieves Caught Stealing Hay With GPS Tracker

Companies like ours sell GPS vehicle tracker systems to, well, track personal cars and fleet vehicles.

However, people are inventive, and it’s not surprising to discover them using GPS tracking systems in creative and unusual ways.

GPS riding art

Michael “Wally” Wallace is a middle school science teacher. His hobby is using GPS vehicle tracking to transform maps of the city into art. The city streets of Baltimore is his canvas, his mountain bike and GPS technology are his brushes, and Google Maps is his template. Read the rest of this entry »