GPS shoes redefine track

(Credit: GTXC)

We're not all that big on the high-tech apparel trend, but if clothing can help save our lives, it'll get our attention every time. The GTXC "Xplorer" is a line of running shoes equipped with GPS transmitters. Beaming constant signals to show their location, they were designed to track the whereabouts of children and patients, according to Electronista. The shoes can send signals to cell phones and relay text messages if they stray beyond predetermined boundaries that form "virtual fences." Maxwell Smart would be proud.

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Are these actually available?

I can't actually find anyone stocking them, I presume it's still a concept, not a product.

What I'd really like is a set that work like the trackstik, that just stores your movements until you want to transfer the data to a computer. That way when I go out for a day's photography, I can geosync the exif data.