Home - SPOT Satellite Messenger
If your family is paranoid or you just want a live updating tracklog for your blog, this device sounds perfect.
It is a GPS receiver that has a couple of buttons on it that you can press to send your location every 20 minutes, sending a specific "check in message", notify family of an emergency, or the big red button, one that screams SOS!!! to the emergency rescue folks... the guys with the big helicopters. The SOS button has mandatory insurance behind it, I think.
It is really new and I'm eagerly reading about peoples' experiences with it.
The biggest problem I see with it is if you're ridingn through an area with REALLLY bad coverage like a stormy mountain region for a couple of days, you could cause a false panic with the family -- again like others have mentioned, by expectations.
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