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Smart Socks Tracks Down the Life Cycle of Your Socks and More

By Hazel Chua on 09/27/12 • Leave a comment!

Smart Socks

How many socks have you lost in your lifetime? If you’re like most other average human beings, then you’ve probably lost tons. Don’t even get me started on the times I’ve worn mismatched socks because I was in a hurry and couldn’t find the right pair (either that, or I was too sleepy to care.)

Apparently, this is a huge problem to some people who just can’t stand wearing mismatched socks. If you also have the need to know where certain pairs of your socks are, then you might be interested in the Smarter Socks system, which is comprised of RFID chips, a scanner, and an iPhone. Pretty complicated stuff just for socks, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

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Sprint Mobile Controls Lets Parents Decide When The Kids Can Use Their Mobiles

By David Ponce on 12/06/11 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Score one for parents. Sprint has announced a new program called “Sprint Mobile Controls”, which lets parents of cellphone-toting kids get very granular control over just how they get to use their devices. While we agree that kids owning cellphones is kind of important for their social development, we also believe in effective parenting. With this program, here’s a few of the features you’ll have access to:

- Easy-to-read dashboard of phone usage, including voice and text messages broken down by time of day.
- Seeing who your son or daughter has been calling or texting recently – and how often.
- Quickly and easily setting phone use limits by time of day and day of week.
- Establishing an allowed list of phone numbers from which your child can receive a call or text.
- Seeing a list of your child’s contacts with an associated picture ranked by overall texting and calling activity.
- Allowing your child to override phone restrictions in case of an emergency.
- Setting Watchlist contacts: Receive alert notifications when your child communicates with a Watchlist contact.

Man, you’re going to have some happy kids on your hands if you sign up to this! But that doesn’t mean they won’t be a little safer…

It’s $5 a month.

[ Sprint Mobile Controls ] VIA [ HotHardwareM ]

Swivl Camera Tracking Device Is Ready For Prime-Time

By David Ponce on 11/10/11 • 1 Comment

By David Ponce

Facetime is great and everything, but having to hold your phone in one hand severely hampers your ability to do pretty much anything else. Put it down somewhere and you can’t really go anyplace outside its field of view. To the rescue comes the Swivl, an accessory which securely holds your phone and tracks your every movement. It pans (left and right movements) and tilts (up and down movements) and will keep you in the frame as long as you are wearing its beacon. It’s not limited to the iPhone of course; as long as it fits in the holder you’re good to go. It’s available for pre-order right now and will ship out in early 2012 with an estimated price of $159.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ UberGizmo ]

Tagg Pet Tracker – Keeping Your Pet Safe with Technology

By Eric Evdosin on 10/13/11 • 1 Comment

By Eric Evdosin

Do you have a dog or cat that likes to stray away from the yard and you are always trying to find them? The Tagg Pet Tracker combines GPS and wireless technology to make keeping tabs on your pet simple. You use the GPS to help build a defined “safe zone” for your pets. Whenever they stray outside of this area you are quickly notified by text and/or email.

The Tagg Pet Tracker is tied into the Verizon data network giving you coverage in most parts of the country. This powerful combination of GPS and wireless communications takes away the fear of losing a pet and allows you to walk directly to where they are playing their game of pet hide-and-seek. The Tagg Pet Tracker retails for $199.95 and includes a full year of service.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ Crnchy ]

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