Where am I, where are you?

[Nick]

In searching for a GPS-enabled cell phone to aid in precise location for emergency/medical purposes, I ran across the following highly informative web site. I spent some time looking around and exploring the site and found it to be helpful in my quest for a combination GPS/wireless phone solution that would serve to communicate my location coordinates in the event of an emergency.

Oddly named "gps-practice-and-fun", the site offers a wealth of information on literally dozens of different uses and applications for GPS technology, some of which were new to me.

"Today, GPS navigation is really within the reach of everyone. And GPS is no longer only for geeks. Most people already have to deal with GPS, in one form or another. Most useful for all of us is maybe GPS in cell phones. Thanks to this technology, emergency services (E911, E112) can know (exactly) where you are in case you need help. Even if you do not know or can not tell where...you are."http://www.gps-practice-and-fun.com/index.html

[JohnGfun]

Most phones today have E-911 GPS Capability. Or are you talking about a different type of a GPS Phone?

[Geronimo]

MY guess is that he means something like this

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,115273,00.asp

Good luck Nick.

[JohnGfun]

He said for "emergency/medical purposes" though?

[Geronimo]

Only Nick can answer but I believe that he was trying to use an existing technology (GPS) for that purpose. Ther are a few products specifically for this http://www.thematuremarket.com/SeniorStrategic/safeguardian_medical_alarm_one_button_safety-5388-5.html

But they tend to use the same technolgy and are pricey.

[Nick]

Thanks for the ideas. I also have my eye on a late-model used GMC Yukon SLT that has the blue button.

Almost any product "designed" for or marketed to old people tends to be pricey. Like many of us here, my usual style is to take existing or cutting-edge technology and use it and adapt it for my purposes. My homebrew six-room switched wireless tv network is a prime example.

Forty years ago, my wife was confined to bed carrying our first child. I fashioned a butt-ugly wired tv remote control mounted in an Prince Albert pipe tobacco can that provided her with on/off, channel-change and volume control capability on an "Admiral" tv - back in the day before remote controls existed on any tv set.

Personally, I tend to avoid most products that are marketed primarily to senior citizens, which, in many cases are similar to products marketed to the baby market. :rolleyes:

:D