DriveSync tracks your kids' joyrides

DriveSync tracks your kids' joyrides - Engadget

Nothing gladdens our hearts more than seeing yet another paranoid parent kid tracking device aimed at locking down the hearts, minds and loins of today's youth. This one provides off-line GPS tracking (read: cheaper than real-time) of your vehicle so you can see when, where, how fast and how aggressively your teen is abusing the family getaway-mobile. The data is tracked passively and stored in a USB key that plugs into the receiver unit and detaches to be read on your home computer. The data is uploaded to a DriveSync server where it gets interpreted, generating reports including trip logs and usage alerts

Oh boy! More Handy Stalker Tools! Yet I still get flak for being a privacy nazi. Go figure.

The Carson NM-1 NiteMax night vision viewer

The Carson NM-1 NiteMax night vision viewer - Engadget

...the Carson NM-1 NiteMax will give you a bright and clear picture in even the darkest conditions, and display it on the built-in 2.5-inch grayscale LCD screen. But if the screen's not enough for you, the RCA video output jack will let you connect the NiteMax to your camcorder or VCR so you can make a permanent record of whatever it is that's so important it can't wait until daytime. Buy now and you can get it for the low, low price of $289.99.

Umm...yeah, it's for bird-watching. No really. Not to be used for stalking at all.

Hop-on's ChitterChatter GPS/cell watch

Hop-on's ChitterChatter GPS/cell watch - Engadget

Whether at work, home or traveling, simply use the Internet or any phone with SMS capabilities to quickly identify the location of the device within 300+ feet, in approximately 1 minute. The ChitterChatter Phone allows kids to stay in touch with close family and friends, or send their location by pressing the one-touch star button -- while letting parents manage costs.

Oh goody. More fun stalking...I mean kid saving devices. All for only $50.

More Handy Stalker Tools

Globatsat TR-101

Remote command control via mobile phones and/or through online software.
• Receive phone calls to have two way communications.
• Monitors can track the person without interfering him, LIVE! Real-Time tracking!
• Locate the locator holder with just a press of a button on PC software or through mobile phone via SMS (short messaging system).
• Report device holder’s position at a preset time interval.

More fun toys to stalk the Ex. Why the nice fun color scheme? To make "the children designs more fun to use."

Instant Replay Binoculars

productdose.com - Instant Replay Binoculars

If you spend much time looking through binoculars, you’ve at some point probably wished you could replay an image you just saw. Bushnell had you in mind when coming up with these 8 x 32-magnification Instant Replay Digital Binoculars, which replay .35 megapixel video clips (15fps) or 2.1 megapixel still images on a 1.5” LCD screen. While the binoculars were designed for replay on the go, the set also comes with imaging software and a USB for transfer to your computer.

Ah, more useful stalker tools. Will wonders never cease?

Flying Digital Camera On Sale At Wal-Mart

THE RAW FEED: Flying Digital Camera On Sale At Wal-Mart

What's the coolest thing you can buy at Wal-Mart? It very well may be this RC airplane with built-in DIGITAL CAMERA. You take pictures from the plane by pressing a button on the remote. It's perfect for gadget geeks who already have everything else, nosy kids and peeping toms.

I don't know if this qualifies as a useful stalker tool or not but it is pretty cool. Can't find diddly shit on the specs, but it is from our friends over at Estes. Don't forget to check out thier hydrogen powered rocket too.

MII Flashcam—Stalker's Best Friend

MII Flashcam—Stalker's Best Friend - Gizmodo

Okay, this isn't as good for stalkers and peeping toms as much as it’s great for tactical/law enforcement types. The MII Flashcam appears to be a mild-mannered flashlight. Looks can be deceiving because this flashlight is fully loaded. This flashlight features a conveniently-mounted camera that can record video up to 640x480 and take snapshots at 3 megapixels. It also features LED infrared illumination, standard 85,000 candle power flashlight and a 1.5” TFT-LCD screen for playback and viewing of pictures.

Speaking of stalking tools. Fine, it probably is more useful for rent-a-cops. Can you imagine the embarrassment when you are trying to record some chick changing and hit the 85,000 candle power flashlight instead of the infrared?
Hey, does this mean I have to be more respectful to rent-a-cops? I hate rent-a-cops.

CarChipE/X with Alarm alerts teens of driving indiscretions

CarChipE/X with Alarm alerts teens of driving indiscretions - Engadget - www.engadget.com

The device has been around for a while, mounting under your dash and tracking all sorts of things like car speed and RPM, sudden braking and acceleration, distance traveled, and fuel usage, which it stores in a 300 hour log. You can then take the CarChip and pull the data to your PC via USB and check on what your car has been up to. Now they’re adding an alarm functionality to alert the driver when they go above preset maximums for speed, braking, and acceleration, which we’re sure will annoy that drag racing teen of yours.

Ouch. Big brother for your daughter/son. As a privacy advocate I find this device appalling. As a parent, I have to resist the urge to buy this right now in case they stop making them when my daughter is old enough to drive. Really parents, this is a bad idea.
However, this might make an excellent addition to my collection of useful stalker tools.

Zapped! Homemade RFID Reader-Detector

Zapped! Homemade RFID Reader-Detector

You may have heard the term RFID and possibly even brought one home unknowingly. But what exactly is a Radio Frequency Identification tag? Why are Wal-Mart, the Department of Defense and the Food & Drug Administration sinking big bucks into these little chips and paving the way for mass implementation?
After a brief overview of the technology and its related issues, each participant will receive a Zapped! RFID workbook. Participate in one of several hands-on exercises. You can to build your own RFID keychain detector that will ring, vibrate or light up when a RFID reader is within range and scanning the airwaves for data. Or program a RFID tag to "talk back" to a RFID reader that you may uncover with your Zapped! keychain.

Seems my rampant paranoia is acting up again. No way anyone can abuse RFID. Nope. Add this to the list of useful stalker tools.

To Protect and Intrude

Yahoo! News - To Protect and Intrude

SAN DIEGO -- John Phillips peered down at the computer screen. Something didn't look quite right. It was 9:11 a.m. on the West Coast, or just past noon in the East, and all the bus drivers were supposed to be on break. The map of the District of Columbia showed hundreds of red blips representing vehicles that had been parked for more than an hour. But then there was one black dot, a lone bus, moving rapidly in the northwestern quadrant of the city.

More useful stalker tools for the masses.

Canadian Inventor Lets Everyone Be an Armchair Spy

Yahoo! News - Canadian Inventor Lets Everyone Be an Armchair Spy

Vincent Tao, an engineer at Toronto's York University said he has invented a mapping and surveillance tool called SAME (see anywhere, map anywhere), that produces images so sharp that geographic co-ordinates typed into a Web site can reveal the make of a car parked on the street. Tao said SAME works by taking satellite images of the Earth and combining them with real-time remote sensors that monitor traffic and weather. The information is reformatted on a searchable Web site that can capture ground-level images of the Earth with little or no time delay. The resolution is 2 feet -- fine enough to determine the make of a car, though not the details of a human face, according to Tao.

Gee, more handy dandy stalker tools.

Every Step You Take . . . Every Move You Make . . . My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You

Every Step You Take . . . Every Move You Make . . . My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You - Popular Science

hey fell for each other in grade school, in the sweetest of ways. In fifth-grade music class, she played saxophone; he played the snare drum. In high school biology, she held the frog while he wielded the scalpel. It was the sort of love story immortalized endlessly in romance novels and Top 40 long-distance dedications. “I thought when I married him it really would be ’till death do us part,’ ” she says now, still surprised that the marriage ended after 19 years. Ultimately, the romance had sputtered to a close, as so many love stories do. Unlike most love stories, though, this ending involved satellites.

Ahhhh, who says technology doesn't make things easier? A disturbing ,but unfortunately, unsuprising article from Popular Science about tech stalking. I will say that as soon as I read about the GPS enabled phones my first thought was exactly along the line of the article. Toss the old cell phone in the wife's trunk and track her in realtime over the web. I can't imagine why all the privacy people are up in arms about RFID.

Dark Blue Chip: IMWatching

Dark Blue Chip: IMWatching

You want to spy on someones internet presence? Now you can with IMWatching. IMWatching lets you record and analyze anybody's Instant Messenger presence.

Most Instant Messenger users broadcast when they sign on, sign off, go idle, and flag themselves as away. This presence information is typically innocuous, useful for knowing if your buddies are available to chat. But when monitored continuously, over long time periods, those few signals tell a lot. This website lets you record and analyze anybody's IM activity. As of now it only supports AOL Instant Messenger, but it seems like they plan to support other platforms in the future.

Wow....have to file this one under my "Handy Stalker Tools" favorites.

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