The concept for GPS sneakers first came to Isaac Daniels back in 2002 when he received a call that his child had gone missing from soccer practice. Mr. Daniels was on the business travel and immediately hopped a plane back home to locate that there had been a mix-up: His son had an unscheduled bathroom break coupled with been separated from his class.
Mr. Daniels was relieved, however it set his mind to thinking. What if his son had actually gone missing? Wasn't there something which could be completed to help locate him? The solution ' GPS sneakers hypervenom pas cher.
The idea could be that the GPS unit around the underside of the shoe might be activated by depressing a button. This unit were built with a life of the battery of about Twenty four hours and would continually signal before 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 exploring and also the latter for extreme cases like abduction.
The first GPS sneakers were marketed through the Fele Corporation in 2007 and retailed for $325. These were the sneakers that got trashed within the press. Just a few hiking and travel websites took them seriously. Even though the idea was sound, there was little marketplace for footwear that needed a $19.95 per month subscription-monitoring service, and an initial run was only for a few hundred (even though it was reported that stores were preordering them by the tens of thousands). Fele ceased operation in 2008.
Undaunted through the failure of his first company, Isaac Daniel continued his dream of GPS shoes. His second endeavor, IsaacDaniel , marketed a brand new GPS sneaker line ' nowhere shoe mercurial pas cher. The Blue shoe was equipped with Bluetooth technology that connected the shoe to some GPS-enabled phone or PDA. The shoe retailed at $150 with 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 are not available at any online or brick-and-mortar retailer.
The GTX corporation appears to be the only real current viable source for GPS shoes. They've another story of how the organization came up with the idea for GPS tracking in shoes that highlights the Court case. GTX is expecting to possess a marketable product available to buy from Aetrex by the end of Spring 2011 (as of 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 Foot, GPSShoe, and at select assisted living facilities, from September. The tracking service will cost $40 to $50 monthly. The tracking service works with Google maps to monitor residents wearing the shoes hypervenom pas cher. When they travel outside of a predefined area a reminder is going to be sent to the concern facility with the exact place of the baby.
GTX has also expressed interest in working with major shoe brands, even though they haven't named names, and entering into the kids shoe market.