CHILD-TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
December 1st, 2002
BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, AustraliaTWO Australian single fathers have invented a child-tracking device that works indoors as well as out. Scott Rickaby and Mark Tunstall, researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, say they were inspired to make the device by the abduction and killing of Merseyside toddler James Bulger almost ten years ago.He was snatched in a shopping centre and their TARRAD device, they claim, is an improvement over similar devices that use GPS systems, as they are generally only successful outdoors. "We did a ...
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