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January 26, 2007

Tracking Loved Ones with Smart GPS Shoes

GTX Smart GPS Shoe Xplorer
You just knew this day was coming sooner or later... GTX Corp. will unveil their new Xplorer line of Smart GPS shoes on February 1st, at the World Shoe Association (huh?) in Las Vegas. According to their press release, GTXC has been in development on the Xplorer line for the past three years. Utilizing GTXC's internet user portal along with the Xplorer shoe, caretakers of children, the elderly, and crazys other's can easily customize their monitoring and text location alerting through a proprietary "set it and forget it" Dual GeoFencing™ feature.

Xplorer advances the state of Personal Location Services by incorporating assisted GPS for enhanced indoor accuracy, and GTXC's "set-it-and-forget-it" Dual GeoFencing™ feature, which allows perimeters of either safe zones (green) or un-safe zones (red) to be preset by caretakers, who will receive cell phone alerts if a perimeter is breached by the wearer.  Another key feature is the long-lasting proprietary intelligent power source.  It can last days before requiring a recharge and transmit its signal strength over the air, which enables a guardian not only to track a loved one but also track the performance and status of the device.

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